"Aspirationally," said Mr. Yadigaroglu, who holds a doctorate from Stanford in astrophysics, "we're trying to make more money than others doing the same thing and do it in a way that is superior in ethics and impacts".
I think his floor is relatively high because of his superior work ethic, but I don't see him as anything more than a solid N.F.L. player.
Orphaned in his early teens, he came under the auspices of his Aunt Betty Howes, a nurse at Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington, Vermont, who guided him to his superior work ethic, and introduced him to his future wife.
Knowing this about human history, it seems profoundly delusional for the boomers, a generation permitted a fleeting taste of a dignified existence, to believe this occurred because of their superior work ethic.
Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz drew wide criticism earlier this year for an essay sounding the warning bell on what he perceived as superior work ethic among Chinese entrepreneurs compared to their U.S. counterparts.
One, from a commander in April 2011, reads: "Your superior work ethic, professionalism, expertise and bravery are the epitome of the Special Forces motto: The Quiet Professionals".
Specifically, I would bring to your company: Strong belief in company loyalty, professional integrity and support, and a superior work ethic.
And in the past six to eight years, Democrats have sometimes campaigned on what they said were superior standards of ethics, transparency and honesty in government.
Baggini argues that atheism is a superior basis for ethics, claiming that a moral basis external to religious imperatives is necessary to evaluate the morality of the imperatives themselves to be able to discern, for example, that "thou shalt steal" is immoral even if one's religion instructs it and that atheists, therefore, have the advantage of being more inclined to make such evaluations.
But Martin considers our work ethic superior to "the aristocratic cult of uselessness, with all its flouting and flaunting.
