100 maxims about ethics at work
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MK
100 quotations about ethics at work
100 maximsabout ethics at work
by Muel Kaptein
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Ethics contains the
principles
for which you stand and fall.MK
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Ethics is doing the right thing right when no one is watching.
MK
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RulesEthics begins where laws and
rules end.
MK
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What is unethical remains unethical, even if others approve.
MK
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Ethics contains the principles for which you stand and fall. MK
Business ethics is
the anatomy
of the corporat
e soul and
conscience.
MK
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Ethics contains the principles for which you stand and fall. MK
Ethics limits and
liberates.
MK
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Ethics contains the principles for which you stand and fall. MK
The litmus test of ethics is how well you treat
those who treat you badly..
MK
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Tolerating
unethical
behavior of
others in your
organization, also
reveals your
own lack of
ethics.
MK
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Though it might differ
for everyone, there is a price
for which a person will
give up one’s own integrity.
The only question is,
what is yours?
MK
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Ethics contains the principles for which you stand and fall. MK
Ethics is the basis of a contract, whereas its absence is the reason
for one.
MK
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To give up your integrity
for a minor
offence is worse
than giving it up for a bigger one: It shows that your
integrity is worth less to you.
MK MK
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Our ethics are the priority
rules we apply in the
intersections at work.MK
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Ethics only has value when you are ready to sacrifice something for it.
MK
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The added value
of ethics
is ethics.
MK
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Verscheurd winnend lot
Compromising your ethics is like shredding
a winning lottery ticket.
MK
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You cann
ot creat
e value if you do not know
your own values.
MK
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Integrity cann
ot be
bought,
only sold.
MK
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Bergtop
Integrity is the highest
valuein society, at home and at
work.
MK
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It is betterto die
standing than to live crawlin
g.MK
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The three elements of
entrepreneurship are effectiveness,
efficiency, and ethics.
The most important of these
is ethics.MK
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Integrity is like glass:
if it shatter
s, it can never
be made whole again.
MK
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Leadership
without ethics
is like a body
without a
backbone.
MK
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MK
Business
purely for
profit is
bad busines
s, ethically and econo
mically.
MK
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Ethics is like a brake pedal:
the better it
works, the
faster you can
drivewithout spinning out of control.
MK
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Iets moois?Doing good is good business, and doing even better is the best business.
MK
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To do busines
s without ethics
is to go out of
business.
MK
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When ethics is far away,
then evil is at hand.
MK
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The busines
s of business ethics
is busines
s.MK
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The gains of
a wrongdoing are nothing compared to the
extent and
intensity of the gnawing conscie
nce.
MK
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People who stand for
nothing will fall for
anything.
MK
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That people
and organizations
are discred
ited due to
weakness in
integrity is a
sign of the
power of
integrity.
MK
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Those who think their
integrity is so
precious that it needs to be
kept in a safe
at home should better stay
home themsel
ves.
MK
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Ethics begins when we end indifference and apathy.
MK
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Unethical
behavior
starts with
lying to oneself
.
MK
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When everyth
ing is transpa
rent you
cannot see
anything.
MK
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Ethics is more than egoism and less than altruism. MK
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It is especially by doing
nothing that we make our
hands dirty.
MK
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Trust is good, validated trust is even better.
MK
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The more ethical conduct is
appreciated, the less it says when
displayed.
MK
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If we believe that integrity is like pregnancy– either you are or you are not – then we are the last of our kind.
MK
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Love for ethics and love as
ethics are two sides of the same coin.
MK
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Moral courage shows when one is afraid.
MK
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Responsibility and accountability are the legs on which ethics stands.
MK
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Ethical leadership does not require that
you already are a leader. You attain it by creating a
new ethical norm and convincing
others of it.MK
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Ethics is doomed when we are silent about vitally important matters.
MK
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You cannot expect others to be
ethical if you cannot expect
the same
of yoursel
f.
MK
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Questions like “when does intimacy become intimidation, bravery
recklessness , and friendliness
nepotism?” are as difficult to answer as
the question "how many stones make a
heap?”MK
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The aesthetics of
ethics is its multiformity,
multifacetedness, and
multicoloredness.MK
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Never sacrifice your ethics
to greed.
MK
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??It is
better to be
deceived than
to deceive others.
MK
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Just do it??“Just do it” contradicts“Just, do it.”
MK
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Integrity is consistency of
and congruence
between what you think,
say, and do.
MK
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Openness without
confidentiality is like space
without demarcation,
that is, impossible.MK
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Transparency casts
its shadow ahead;
the more you
realize not to
do what
you do not
want to come
to light.
MK
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If integrity is the thread we weave through our life story, then we
ought not to skip a single day.
MK
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The ethic you
exhibit in your position is the ethical testimony for your
successor.
MK
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Army benenIf one thinks
that ethics comes
without a
struggle,
then one
definitely will
lose it.
MK
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From among ‘up
or out’, ‘grow
or go’, or
‘excel or
exit’, the last
one is the
least objectionabl
e.
MK
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That speech
is silver and
silence golden
is fallacy
par excellence for
not blowing the
whistle.
MK
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The question is not what is today’s morality but
what is tomorro
w’s, and what
we are going to do
about it now.
MK
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The front page test for what is ethical or not is
misleading because
tomorrow’s fish will be wrapped in
today’s newspapers.
MK
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You canno
t improve the world with your
thoughts but with your
actions.
MK
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A dilemma is always a choice
between obscuring or
enhancing your integrity.
MK
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Mate“Everyth
ing in moderation” does
not apply to integrity
and corruptio
n.
MK
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PressureEveryth
ing becomes fluid under
pressure,
except genuin
e integrit
y.
MK
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Next to the wide
and narrow
paths often lies
a third one:the
middle path.
MK
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A criminal starts
out as a petty thief.
MK
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Rug wassenWhen you scratch each other's backs, your conscience will itch.
MK
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The more
you lie, the
better memor
y you need.MK
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With advancin
g year
s come
not only
moral
wisdom but
also mora
l obstinacy.
MK
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Just like
water, moralit
y starts
to stink when it stands
still.MK
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If you do not have time
now for ethics,
then ethics
will not have time
for you later.
MK
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If you do
good becaus
e you
ought to, then you do
wrong when you may.
MK
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The more
people are
made respon
sible for one
and the
same task,
the less
each feels
responsible
for it.
MK
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Those who say that they can look at
themselves in the mirror see only
themselves and not how others see
them.
MK
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If ethics is regarded as
the icing on the cake,
then the cake can’t be very
good.MK
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When you are full of
yourself, then there is
no room for
others.
MK
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The law of ethics:
people try to find the
boundaries till they cross
it.
MK
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If one is willing to bet on one's integrity, then one will lose it.MK
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If you have never been
betrayed, then
you haven’t trusted much.
MK
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Unethical conduct is like a drug: once tasted you get easily addicted to it.
MK
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Slippery-slope ethics results in slip-ups, and the further down the slope, the harder it is to stop as it is to go back up.
MK
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Cookie jarPeople who are caught with their hands in the cookie jarall thought they could have the cookies.
MK
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People who categorically do not trust anyone cannot be trusted.
MK
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If you think
you are a beacon of light,
then you can
never see your
own shadow.
MK
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Managers who, due to a lack of
authority, create dependence
through injustice are very harmful to
ethics.
MK
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Watch out for those who consistently talk of ethics in the long term;
they might be obscuring the fact that they are making a mess
of it in the short run.
MK
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Managers who often deal with
whistle blowers turn deaf
quickly.
MK
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“No, unless”
is the beginnin
g of every moral
rationalization.
MK
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A person’s integrity is the ability to withstand pressure and temptation. An organization’s integrity is the ability to prevent these.
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A code is
nothing,
coding is
everything.
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RoundaboutAn organization is a trafficcircle of stakeholders where ethics prevents accidents between conflicting interests.
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Teaching ethics is not about giving the right answers; it is about asking the right questions.
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People follow a good example. The same for a bad example,
but unfortunately bad behavior
follows.
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The tone at the top is determined by the road to it.
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Live in
such a way
that when colleagues think
of a role
model,
they will
think of
you.
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If you think you have integrity until proven otherwise, then you will focus on preventing the bad and, unfortunately, not on doing good.
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Clarifying that no one will ever have absolute integrity has a disarming and relaxing effect and forms the breeding ground for improving integrity.
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If unethical conduct is punished severely, then what we get back is more severe: more unethical conduct.
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Shared dilemmas are half burdens
and doubly virtuous.
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100 quotations about ethics at work
MK
100 quotations about ethics at work
Thank you!Muel Kaptein
Partner at KPMG & Professor at RSM Erasmus University
www.ethicsmanagement.info