Quotes About Trust

If you want people to grow, you have to let them take risks, and you have to let them fail.

Two sure ways to kill a company are through arrogance and through ignorance. Keeping employees in the dark about the company's financial health only stirs the rumor mill.

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.

This," said Iucounu, "is my friend Firx, from the star Achernar, who is far wiser than he seems. Firx is annoyed at being separated from his comrade with whom he shares a vat in my workroom. He will assist you in the expeditious discharge of your duties." Iucounu stepped close, deftly thrust the creature against Cugel's abdomen. It merged into his viscera, took up a vigilant post clasped around Cugel's liver.

First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.

Liane is feared by those who fear fear, loved by those who love love.

Though the steppe tribes of his time changed sides at the least provocation and soldiers might desert their leaders, none of Temujin's generals deserted him throughout his six decades as a warrior. In turn, Temujin never punished or harmed one of his generals. Among the great kings and conquerors of history, this record of fidelity is unique.

for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.

Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.

Genghis Khan always honored his word. Those who surrendered suffered no harm, and he treated them well. In turn, he used this fair treatment as a means of encouraging other cities to surrender.

leadership, very simply, is about two things:          1.   Truth and trust.          2.   Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter.

The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.

Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in doing so, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

for the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

People believe what they are told.

The wise man, the dragon rumbled, does not play games with dragons.

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

Avevo Joscelin, il mio Compagno Perfetto, la bussola su cui era fisso il mio cuore.