Quotes About Integrity

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." —Socrates

GENEROSITY + VULNERABILITY + ACCOUNTABILITY + CANDOR = TRUST

There's a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. "So many people are liars:

the currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

there are two types of people in this world: those who make excuses and those who get the job done. No excuses. You are 100 percent responsible for anything that has your name on it.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you know that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

if you just go along with what everybody else thinks, if you confuse popular consensus for an honest research process, you' re setting yourself up for failure.

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception?

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then the sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, 'Hey—in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak.' And the Marine turns around and says, 'Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands.

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, "Hey- in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak." And the Marine turns around and says, "Yeah? Well, in the Marines they teach us not to piss on our hands.

We know the minute he's going plastic. Shit, Charlie and I have been watching that ass for forty-odd years; we know when the moneymaker's shaking and when it's being told what to do.

The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car

The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself.

When we feel deprived we try to make it right, and that makes it easier to rationalize our behavior. It's easier to say I need this. I deserve this. But Patanjali says the opposite is true: If we don't take what isn't ours (asteya), we will flourish.

What is truth? Truth is telling it like it really is. Truth is not a thing, but rather a relationship between our words or ideas and reality. Whether

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

Guilt was for lesser men. A sign of weakness.

Too little temptation can lead to virtue.

It's harder to make a banker out of a hoss thief than a hoss thief out of a banker.

Never gamble with a man who knows both sides of the cards.