Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.