Quotes About Trust

My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. "I'm honest," "I'm ethical," even "I'm the boss," or "I'm in charge," usually indicates just the opposite. Doesn't it?

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

leads to relationship. That's not the life cycle, that's the life cycle of sales.

sell to help the other person

The reason trust is requested is because the person seeking

We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.

Respect: We respect others, make every effort to understand each other, take responsibility and do our best to build mutual trust. Teamwork: We stimulate personal and professional growth, share the opportunities of development and maximize individual and team performance.

The most all people do wrong things in their lives but it was the ones who had the strength to admit to doing so that would trust.... you do the right thing, however hard. Otherwise, it turns back upon you. Always.

The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.

But I no longer believe that trust is essential to organizational functioning or even to effective leadership. Why? Because the data suggest that trust is notable mostly by its absence. Nevertheless, organizations continue to roll along, as do their leaders who seemingly suffer few consequences for being untrustworthy.

our ability to accurately discern who is taking advantage of us is remarkably poor.

Kildall] couldn't imagine being knifed in the back—certainly not by Gates. The two had known each other since Gates was a thirteen-year-old hacker in Seattle and Kildall was getting his doctorate. . . . They discussed merging their young companies . .

a tale about America's first president not lying is itself apparently a lie.

one in 10 text messages involves a lie of some kind. . . .

although most people believe they can reliably discern when they are being lied to, the evidence suggests that they can't.

Individuals who wear fake (counterfeit) branded sunglasses cheat more often across a number of different tasks.

In everyday social relationships, people expect fair treatment and favors to be reciprocated.

evidence shows most workplaces filled with distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing employees.

like the BMW mechanic who handed Robert Sutton a survey and pleaded for a five on a five-point scale, because otherwise he would get in trouble).

we are predisposed to trust and have an evolutionary need to do so. Therefore, people are motivated to overlook a violation of trust

Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.