We 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.
Price PritchettThe ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price PritchettOptimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
Price PritchettEthical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
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 PritchettNotice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
Price PritchettYou canโt bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like thereโs been a murder in the operating room. If you send a rocket to the moon, about ninety percent of the time itโs off courseโit โfailsโ its way to the moon by continually making mistakes and correcting them.
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