"To be a person of integrity and adhere to a high standard of ethics, an individual must operate on one simple principle: To know what is right and to do what is right with every family, every time. Knowing what is right in one thing; doing what is right is yet another. It is the knowing and doing what is right consistently that is the foundational principle of ethical behavior. When an individual in a business acts with integrity, then and only then is a business viewed as ethical.
In his book The Speed of Trust, Stephen M. R. Covey says, A person has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behavior. When a person purposes to and actually does what is based on correct values of what is right, he or she is acting on the fundamentals of integrity. " --William O’Sullivan