Quotes About Trust

you build a team of competent people whom you trust, you establish goals and metrics to monitor their progress, you translate higher-level goals into specific responsibilities for your direct reports, and you reinforce them through process.

No matter where you land, the keys to effective delegation remain much the same: you build a team of competent people whom you trust, you establish goals and metrics to monitor their progress, you translate higher-level goals into specific responsibilities for your direct reports, and you reinforce them through process.

the ability to delegate lies at the heart of leadership.3 Regardless of where you land in the organization, the keys to effective delegation remain pretty much the same: you build a team of competent people whom you trust, you establish goals and metrics through which you can monitor people's progress, you translate higher-level goals into specific responsibilities for your direct reports, and you reinforce them through some sort of management-by-objectives process.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her.

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams

We won the bloody war. Never again, we said. Then Hitler comes along and starts building his squadrons of panzers and fighter planes—purely for defense, he assures everyone, and we believe him. Even when he marches into the Rhineland we believe him. Two years later he's trampling all over bloody Austria, and now he's ripping Czechoslovakia to pieces. And still our Prime Minister says he trusts him!" His

And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.

The eyes, when they came up to meet hers, were like unhammered steel. "You think I'm shallow enough to turn on an old friend just because you flash your tits at me?" An

he made his declaration two weeks before Easter in the most public fashion possible for the age: on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. 'I'm in favor of disarmament and I'm in favor of trust,' he [Billy Graham] said. 'I'm in favor of having agreements not only to reduce but to eliminate. Why should any nation have atomic bombs?

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they're doing.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Wolf acknowledged that "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of the police will never happen to them.

By? te? draniem, podst?pnym uwodzicielem, który zostawi j? ze z?amanym sercem.

Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

Secrecy is a fragile state, a single time undone and forever finished.

I have become solitary," wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.

The fact that Longo himself was a skilled liar seemed to engender in him an ancillary condition in which he was distrustful of everyone else's honesty.

Do not burn bridges, put a toll on either end.

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.