Quotes About Honesty

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

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

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

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.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

There are more fakers in business than in jail.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.