I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment you perform better when your thoughts feelings emotions goals and values are in balance.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business but are essential to governing like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
In the social business marketplace brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.
In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.
Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
I started out mopping floors waiting tables and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation I put my name forward and ran for office.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith family home a simpler way of living the beauty of nature quiet tranquillity peace joy hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Latin life is rich with warmth family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
I'm proud that today at 43 years old I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development a record of Experience whose legitimate office is to perfect the life a legible language to those who will study it of the majestic mistress the soul.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that although they might be very beautiful would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.