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Quotes About Trust

Every company has interesting, difficult issues to wrestle with, and a lack of interest during meetings is a pretty good indication that the team may be avoiding issues because they are uncomfortable with one another. Remember, there is no excuse for having continually boring meetings.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Talking about a colleague who is not present is not gossip. Gossip requires the intent to hurt someone, and it is almost always accompanied by an unwillingness to confront a person directly with the information being discussed.
~ Patrick Lencioni
For cohesive teams, meetings are compelling and vital. They are forums for asking difficult questions, challenging one another's ideas, and ultimately arriving at decisions that everyone agrees to support and adhere to, in the best interests of the company.
~ Patrick Lencioni
ALWAYS CONSULT INSTEAD OF SELL
~ Patrick Lencioni
No quality or characteristic is more important than trust.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Help people realize that when they fail to provide peers with constructive feedback they are letting them down personally. By holding back, we are hurting not only the team, but also our teammates themselves.
~ Patrick Lencioni
And they don't worry about whether the potential client will take advantage of their generosity; they know that for every client that does, nine others will appreciate their generosity and start to see themselves as a client even before they formally decide to become one.
~ Patrick Lencioni
When it comes to teams, trust is all about vulnerability. Team members who trust one another learn to be comfortable being open, even exposed, to one another around their failures, weaknesses, even fears.
~ Patrick Lencioni
That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes. While each of these tools and exercises can have a significant short-term impact on a team's ability to build trust
~ Unknown
In order to be the kind of leader who demonstrates genuine interest in employees and who can help people discover the relevance of their work, a person must have a level of personal confidence and emotional vulnerability.
~ Unknown
So let there be no more of this clucking and wheedling. Oh, Pa, are you sure? Or: Oh, Francis, is this really a good idea? Let me be clear. I am always sure, and it is always a good idea.
~ Unknown
Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.
~ Unknown
Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
~ Unknown
Men want and desperately need to feel like God's much-loved sons—that He knows what we're going through, that He loves us in spite of our sins, and that He really cares about us personally. Yet most men find it hard to trust God for these things. Would
~ Unknown
Whatever the cause, not fully embracing the idea that God really cares about you personally is the spiritual equivalent of running away from home. But it doesn't have to be
~ Unknown
Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Compulsion is the death of friendship.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Well, Killick, I trust you are not rushing into matrimony without due consideration? Matrimony is a very serious thing.' 'Oh no, sir. I considered of it: I considered of it, why, the best part of twenty minutes. There was three to choose on, and this here Ã¢â'¬â€œÃ¢â'¬â"¢ looking fondly at his purchase – 'was the pick of the bunch.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master, a paymaster, for God's love? You silly little man.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Diana accepted the bait, spat out the hook with contempt, and hurried away to the stables to consult with Thomas
~ Patrick O'Brian
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, 'Jack, you have debauched my sloth.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I have noticed that some old men lose their sense of honour, and will cheerfully avow the strangest acts.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Never be distressed, honey. I know her faults as well as any man.' 'Of course, she is very beautiful,' said Sophia, glancing at him timidly. 'Yes. Tell me, is Diana wholly in love with Jack?' 'I may be wrong,' she said, after a pause, 'I know very little about these things, or anything else; but I do not believe Diana knows what love is at all.
~ Patrick O'Brian
A commander is obeyed by his officers because he is himself obeying; the thing is not in its essence personal; and so down. If he does not obey, the chain weakens. How grave I am, for all love.
~ Patrick O'Brian