Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

Efficiency can in no way supplant morality.

I think the rewards for moral courage are promotion. ... Any institution gets the behavior it rewards. Now if the institution gets rotten, you can have a problem with this. It's happened to institutions, it's happened to corporations. It's why you have to be very alert to this to keep your personal and managerial integrity.

Competencies can be communicated — and therefore can be taught and learned.

Knowledge = Creativity + Righteousness + Courage

Professional identity cannot cancel out or displace the primordial moral agency that we all share simply by virtue of being human.

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Moral: There are no cheap substitutes for the best.

There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.

The right attitude is to believe that you can cultivate your abilities and develop talents through practice.

Competence over credentials.

The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality.

Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, &c. Consider every act of this kind, as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.