Quotes About Trust

We do the opposite. We start by believing.

We need a trigger to snap out of the default to truth, but the threshold for triggers is high.

First there is default to truth, which gives the con artist a head start. But when you add mismatch to that, it's not hard to understand why Madoff fooled so many for so long.

When a liar acts like an honest person, though, or when an honest person acts like a liar, we're flummoxed.

What we get in exchange for being vulnerable to an occasional lie is efficient communication and social coordination.

The issue with spies is not that there is something brilliant about them. It is that there is something wrong with us.

Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative—to abandon trust as a defense against predation and deception—is worse.

The point of Levine's research was to try to answer one of the biggest puzzles in human psychology: why are we so bad at detecting lies? You'd think we'd be good at it. Logic says that it would be very useful for human beings to know when they are being deceived. Evolution, over many millions of years, should have favored people with the ability to pick up the subtle signs of deception. But it hasn't.

We have no choice but to talk to strangers in our modern, borderless world. We aren't living in villages anymore. Police officers have to stop people they don't know. Intelligence officers have to deal with deception and uncertainty. Young people want to go to parties explicitly to meet strangers... Yet at this most necessary of tasks we are inept. We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can't (p. 342).

But with strangers, we're intolerant of emotional responses that fall outside expectations.

This kind of management system clearly has its risks. It meant Van Riper didn't always have a clear idea of what his troops were up to. It meant he had to place a lot of trust in his subordinates. It was, by his own admission, a messy way to make decisions. But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition.

But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after to-morrow?

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.

Having great clients is the key to investment success.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don'tcheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.

We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do this

When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party.

The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.

Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.