There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
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Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.
There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.
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