You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
Price PritchettYou can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
Price PritchettOptimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
Price PritchettIf you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
Price PritchettWe can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.
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