Business Conduct Quotes

#1. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

Dale Dauten

#2. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.

Maimonides

#3. It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

Steven Spielberg

#4. I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

Vince McMahon

#5. It is easier to conduct business with giant cookies.

Gasmaskman

#6. Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. - Psalm 112:5

Gary Chapman

#7. The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Hedda Hopper

#8. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Kerry Stokes

#9. You must always conduct your business with a clear mind, free of personal issues. Until you learn this simple fact, you'll never get anything out of life. -Moses Luzzatto

Riccardo Bruni

#10. Hillary Clinton used a private email account to conduct official state business. Experts say that if this violates any federal rules, then she ... will still be president.

Jimmy Fallon

#11. A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

#12. Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

Jason Hartman

#13. The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

Nassau William Senior

#14. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

#15. You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

Letitia Baldrige

#16. Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

Berenice Marlohe

#17. The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

Ron Wyden

#18. A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. The money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient brains.

Napoleon Hill

#21. I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings.

Dylan Lauren

#22. I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

Tsai Ing-wen

#23. I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.

Josh Turner

#24. No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

John F. Kennedy

#25. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.

Archibald Marwizi

#26. There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Emma Goldman

#27. Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

Billy Graham

#28. No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Early Wynn

#30. I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Victor Pinchuk

#31. International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Eric Ambler

#32. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod:
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of

William Shakespeare

#33. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Aaron Patzer

#34. I have business to conduct in the language of fur and claw.

Erin Bow

#35. In Kafka's story "Wedding Preparations in the Country," Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.

Franz Kafka

#36. Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

Michael Ian Black

#37. Today, smartphones, tablets, and the Internet have allowed people to conduct business from anywhere at any time. But as we continue to progress, many families find it harder to balance the ever-increasing demands of their work with their desire to care for and be with their family.

Renee Ellmers

#38. Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#39. It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs.

George W. Bush

#40. The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

Theodore Roosevelt

#41. A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

Jim Leach

#42. We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Robert Reich

#43. Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

John Mica

#44. Why is it," says Vohannes as he walks her to the door, "that whenever we finish our business, it feels like neither of us got what we wanted?" "Perhaps we conduct the wrong sort of business.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#45. System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.

George Washington

#46. We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

Akira Mori

#47. To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#48. In my opinion, what the country needs, first and foremost, is a good, sound, business-like conduct of its affairs. What we need is - a business administration !

Sinclair Lewis

#49. Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

John Locke

#50. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. Shifting your focus from getting to giving is not only a nice way to live life and conduct business, but a very profitable way as well.

Bob Burg

#52. I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#53. It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

Harrison Ford