I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Work alone is noble.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.