Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

I was raised by free-spirited people though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

For this equilibrium now in sight let us trust that mankind as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past will find for itself a new code of ethics common to all made of tolerance of courage and of faith in the Spirit of men.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions such as medicine law engineering dentistry or nursing.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial it just doesn't work!