Quotes About Transparency

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Sure thing, just tell'em and let them decide on loving you back or not, it won't be none of your business and if you you ain't got no money be sure to let it all out, it ain't their business.

Don't make me guess your intentions, I might conclude it's your intention to leave me clueless and frustrated

There would be fewer problems and crimes in the world if people tell the truth even if the truth hurt.

Behind the appearance there is a naked conscience.

who are we, that we so conceal ourselves from ourselves?

That's why I'll never run for office. Because you have to be too clean. I am not clean. I've had a lot of mud. Forget the skeletons, I've got the mud. And, know what? I don't want to have to explain me to anybody.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

clear, simple, salient, and meaningful disclosures.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

I never tell you lies, imp. But sometimes I don't tell everybody all the truth.

People will not buy from you if they don't trust you, your product, and your company.

So yes, saying "I don't know" is a good thing. Bullshitting your way through life is not dignified and over time it can never really work. Eventually people see through it and then are very likely to second-guess everything else you say going forward.

They say no one should see how sausage or laws get made,

A year earlier, I had described campaigns to reporters as "like an MRI for the soul—whoever you are, eventually people find out.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

No regrets or worries from living an open book life