Quotes about Values

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

Keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi values character and uniqueness over a shiny facade. It teaches that cracks and scratches in things should be embraced. It's also about simplicity. You strip things down and then use what you have.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

Our world is going through a crisis of dehumanization, breakup of family life, a general loss of moral values.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.

What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?

A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.