Quotes About Trust

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.