Quotes about Values

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a "real" goodness.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

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.

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.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

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.

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.