Quotes about Values
It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.
- DL Moody
We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.
- Joel Osteen
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.
- Zig Ziglar
Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a "real" goodness.
- James Sire
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
- Jane Goodall
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
- Jane Goodall
Yet somehow it's still frequently seen as heroic to sacrifice yourself, your health, and even your ability to do your job just to prove your loyalty to THE MISSION. Fuck the mission. No mission (in business, anyway) is worthy of such dire personal straits.
- Jason Fried
Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.
- Jason Fried
The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.
- Jason Fried
Keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
- Jason Fried
There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi values character and uniqueness over a shiny facade. It teaches that cracks and scratches in things should be embraced. It's also about simplicity. You strip things down and then use what you have.
- Jason Fried