#principle

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. ↗

— Marvin Bower

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A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#business #confidence #decisively #do the right thing #drive

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#either #esteem #first #friendship #imperfect

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

#evolution #individual #may #meeting #much

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#hardly #principles #rigidly #see #sticks

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#gothic #imaginable #infinity #made #principle

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#art #hope #i #iota #life

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choice #constants #principles #three

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel