Workplace Ethics Quotes

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment.

We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.

When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

It turns out Enron workers were not only shredding documents at work, they were having sex at work. Having sex and shredding documents. Those are two things you don't want to get mixed up.

I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.

Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That’s crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.