"Don't take it personally, it's just business". This expression really, really gets my goat.

There simply isn't a difference between your personal values and your business values. Business is a part of life and the way you act in business is the way you act in life. If you tread on someone at work, you tread on someone, period – no caveats, no excuses.

”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not”   Oprah Winfrey