But he does so by violating every precept of good entrepreneurship — by jeopardizing his company and his investment and all his personal wealth for the welfare of his employees.
A number of advisory firms have recommended that shareholders vote against the management of Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Washington Mutual and others on the re-election of specific board directors.Not every precept of good governance makes sense for businesses as special as banks.
Various philosophies and theories have eroded precepts of right and wrong that govern personal behavior.
Silicon Valley, and the tech industry as a whole, is fundamentally based on the precept that an accumulation of good, excellent, and exceptional engineers leads to an outcome wildly beyond the cost of the sum of its parts.
The study was conducted following the international precepts of ethics in research and of good clinical practice.
The natural law is "universal and invariable" and deals with "the rights and duties which follow [necessarily] from the first principle" (see Man and the State, pp. 97-98) or precept of law — that good is to be done and evil avoided.
In the same way as the first principle in theoretical reason, the principle of non-contradiction, is founded on the concept of 'being' as first known in the theoretical realm, the first principle in practical reason, the first precept of natural law: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided," is founded on the concept of 'good' as first known in the practical realm.
Look deeper at the precepts of prior successes, not just the surface.
Supreme Court confirmations are a good time to reflect on some basic precepts of our "separation of powers" system of government.
Ken Kesey, the author of that great American novel of mental illness "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," once cited with approval a precept of his father's: "Good writing ain't necessarily good reading".
