We’re incredibly good at telling ourselves stories, and these help us feel as if we are honest even when we act dishonestly.

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Integrity is the measure of the degree to which we have developed our independent will in our daily lives-how well we have implemented the goals chosen through personal leadership. Integrity is our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves.

In globalization we can come closer together, but we still don't know one another. We can start up a new business fast, but growing wise in the way of life takes a long time. It's never complete, never right, and never perfect. An ethic is deeper than morality or custom. It comes out of our deepest desire to make meaning out of our lives and hence resides in the areas of spirituality and religion. The deepest and most meaningful relationships develop out of this level of interaction. To have integrity is to bring deep meaning to bear in all aspects of one's life. And to deal effectively in a global arena, one must have some notion of the deep meaning imbedded in various cultures.

Many Indians growing up in the United States detect an inconsistency or incoherence about modern life...Somehow you are supposed to be moral and generous in your private life, but that doesn't apply when you go to work -- you don't have to be the same person. That kind of role fragmentation or inconsistency was really seen as profane. One must find a way that synthesizes both who you are in private and who you are in public life and work. One has to find a role that creates integrity.

we used to endorse character and integrity, but today the business ethic that reigns is achievement. And whenever you establish the worth of someone based on what they can do and not on who they are, you have created the environment for fraud.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run denied.