150+ Powerful Quotes About Work Ethics

Here below we have curated 150+ Powerful Quotes about Work Ethics.

Powerful Quotes about Work Ethics

• Across professionals, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
• Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. ― Warren Buffe
• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. ― Oprah Winfrey
• If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour is copied down through the organization. ― Robert Noyce
• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
• Your reputation is more important than your pay check, and your integrity is worth more than your career.
• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
• What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
• Plan your work for today and every day and then work your plan.
• Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
• No shortcuts. Work for it.
• Success requires action and a strong work ethic.
• Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
• Belief + Work Ethic = Results!
• Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity – your success has finally come.
• A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.
• Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best. Your reward may come unexpected.
• Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic.
• Every beautiful mind has great dreams, but rarely is anyone ever ready to work hard for their dreams.
• All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.
• You have to have a work ethic, and you have to be educated in what you’re doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn’t mean that everything you do has to be serious, but you’ve got to have the tools.
• I have a work ethic. If I say I’m going to do something, I do it. ― Viggo Mortensen
• I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I’ve always had a sense of humor about myself. ― George Hamilton
• Developing a good work ethic is a key to success.
• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
• Professionalism shouldn’t be defined by a person’s pay check, role or title. It should be defined by a person’s work ethic. ― Janna Cachola
• Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
• Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old. ― Lisa Leslie
• I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders. ― Mike Krzyzewski
• Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. ― Nick Saban
• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
• The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic. ― Henry Ford II
• I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others. ― Nicole Kidman
• Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
• The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
• We all need sales people with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.
• You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.
• A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
• Leadership is more than just being able to cross the T’s and dot the I’s. It’s about character and integrity and work ethic.
• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. – Albert Camus
• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with calendar.
• A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Will Durant
• Leadership is not a title. It is behaviour. Live it.
• Dreams are what get you started. Discipline is what keeps you going.
• It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
• Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.
• Work hard and be kind. That is all.
• Strong work ethic and tenacity will help you reach your goal.
• Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Zaglar
• Quality is the best business plan.
• Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. – Tom Peters
• The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford
• Your attitude is like a price tag, it shows how valuable you are.
• Focus on being productive instead of busy.
• Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own example. – John Wooden
• You don’t build a business. You build people and then people build the business. – Zig Zaglar
• Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others loveto speak to you.
• You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.
• If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority you create leaders. – Craig Groeschel
• Accept responsibility for your actions. Be accountable for you results. Take ownership for your mistakes.
• A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t go anywhere until you change it.
• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
• The capacity to learn is a gift. The ability to learn is a skill. The willingness to learn is a choice.
• Leadership is based on inspiration, not on domination; on cooperation, not on intimidation.
• Show value, create an experience and always strive to exceed customer expectations.
• If you’re wrong, own up to what you didn’t do right. That’s how you learn and earn respect.
• If you lose integrity, you’ve lost everything.
• Hire character, train skill.
• Quality is doing it right when no one is looking. – Henry Ford
• In leadership, character is more important than strategy.
• It’s not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday.
• If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.
• Honesty, integrity, and truthfulness are integral to workplace ethics and values.
• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
• If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.
• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
• Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. – Denis Waitley
• All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. – Eric Thomas
• I have a work ethic. If I say I’m going to do something, I do it. – Viggo Mortensen
• There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind – you have to adhere to the highest standards. – Marvin Bower
• Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. – Zig Zaglar
• A business makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. – Henry Ford
• Being good is good business.
• Living up to commitment is part of business ethics. My word is my bond. – Isadore Sharp
• We must inter wine business and ethics in a very fundamental way. – Robert Bruner
• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. – Albert Schweitzer
• It is important to make money in the business, but not at the cost of ethics and values.
• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
• It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
• If you don’t stand for something ethics you’ll stand for nothing.
• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
• Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
• In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. – Earl Warren
• More often there’s a compromise between ethics and expediency. – Peter Singer
• Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s really the ethics of the artist using it. – John Knoll
• I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics. – Sharad Pawar
• In just about every area of society, there’s nothing more important than ethics
• It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim ‘never say never’ is one of the most important in ethics.
• The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it’s also about hard work and ethics.
• Ethics are more important than laws. – Wynton Marsalis
• We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
• While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business. – Jamshyd Godrej
• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
• When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. – John Shimkus
• Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it. – Ken Cuccinelli
• Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not an evolved concept. – Simon Conway Morris
• Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don’t let them drag you into the mud. – Richard Branson F
• A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
• Create moments of connection.
• If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
• Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond. – Isadore Sharp F
• When ethical lapses occur, they rarely happen in situations when what is right versus what is wrong is clear. They more typically occur when what is morally right is less clear.
• Cope with problem strategically.
• The principles always work if you work the principles.
• Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. – Zig Zaglar
• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
• If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.
• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs
• There is no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards. – Jordan Belfort
• Success without integrity is failure.
• Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond – Isadore Sharp
• Ethical behaviour is doing what is morally right.
• Doing the right thing doesn’t automatically bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. – Zig Zaglar
• Discipline is doing what you know needs to be done, even though you don’t want to do.
• It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are. – Roy E. Disney
• Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do after the mood you said it in has left you.
• A good work culture, guided by principles, was clearly having a positive impact on employees, customers, partners, and, of course, the bottom line.
• You will never win if you don’t deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.
• The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
• Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of god – Swami Vivekananda
• No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
• E.A.M – Together Everyone Achieves More.
• The first step towards greatness is to be honest.
• Do it with passion or not at all.
• It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Tony Robbins.
• Work ethics eliminates fear. – Michael Jordan
• Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.
• Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
• Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
• The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
• Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honour. – Emily Post

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