Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
In these times of self-directed teams, empowered employees, and "boundaryless" organizations, your worth as an individual employee will also get measured by your work… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share
Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The goods must be more than "good enough." But so must our approach - you know, our methodology, the way we do business and deal with people. How could the ends be considered excellent if we… — Price Pritchett Copy Share
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
