James Cash Penney on integrity

Golden Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a business profitably as are trucks, typewriters or twine.

~ James Cash Penney

Warren Buffett on integrity

If you take the high road it's never crowded.

~ Warren Buffett

Alfred Adler on principles

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. 

~ Alfred Adler, Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology

Warren Buffett on integrity

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.  And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you."

~ Warren Buffett

Leonard Read on education, integrity, and truth

The individual who practices integrity is teachable for, by definition, he is a Truth seeker.

~ Leonard E. Read

Bretigne Shaffer on mixing integrity and politics

People are beyond fed up with empty political promises. They are tired of meaningless "choices" at the ballot box. They are rightly cynical about the entire process. Ron Paul has spent over 30 years of his life demonstrating that his promises are not empty and that he is utterly devoted to the pursuit of liberty in this country. Even people who have just been introduced to him see that he means what he says.

And this changes things. People are accustomed to voting for the lesser of two evils. What happens when someone who is not evil shows up? Integrity is not generally an ingredient found in presidential elections and its presence here now changes the entire nature of the game. Ron Paul is not playing by the same rules as everyone else, and by playing by his own rules – by committing the political cardinal sin of meaning what he says – he changes the rules for everyone else. Candidates are now no longer measured against other politicians whose words mean nothing, but against a man of integrity, and in order to succeed they must rise to his level. But they can’t. A reputation earned in over thirty years of dealing with people is not something that can be bought. Nor can it be "spun" out of thin air. Quite simply: Ron Paul has something none of the other candidates have or can get in time for the elections. This fact alone could very possibly win him the Republican nomination and even the presidency.

~ Bretigne Shaffer, "A Non-Voter’s Thoughts on Ron Paul," LewRockwell.com, November 15, 2007

Twain on integrity

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. 

~ Mark Twain, writer