ETERNALLY ACCOUNTABLE

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

E. M. Forster, 20th century English novelist.

They behave as though they would eternally be held accountable for what they say and do.

If only that were true for all of us all the time.

MIND OVER MORALS??

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States.

How complete is your education?

WHAT YOU SHOULD, NOT ONLY WHAT YOU MUST

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.

Moral courage is the strength to do what you know you should when you know no one will know you didn't.

YOU ARE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-eighth President of the USA.

When wrongdoing is discovered very few employees can truthfully say they didn't know what their company was doing.

Indications of dishonesty will be plentiful and obvious.

Being quiet about it is being a part of it.

WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?

"We moralize among ruins."

Benjamin Disraeli

19th century British politician/author

Not always but often enough.

Consider what for you is immoral before, not after, it becoming obvious.

YOUR LINE IN THE SAND

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Oscar Wilde 

19th century Irish poet and dramatist

And if death does not guarantee truth, neither will you sacrificing your job for what you believe is principle.

There are things you should defend.

Just make certain you know what they are.

Non Negotiable Ethics

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."

Lord Acton

19th century English historian

There is a tendency in some to see ethics and morals in the context of time and circumstance; however what is and isn't ethical and moral is not negotiable.

If you manage things and/or people, before you act, first ask yourself, "Is this right?"

If you cannot answer "yes", and you consider yourself a just person, don't do it.