Richard G. Scott Quotes

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

Give us a clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something we will fall for anything.

Illuminate choice.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?

I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me... how may DNA guides me.