High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others.... If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.
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You have to get beyond blaming others ... give up your excuses ... stand responsible for what you do ... ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.Price Pritchett
Act as if success is certain.
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Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
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As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.
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How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
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You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
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