Quotes About Credibility

What you preach and what you celebrate must be one and the same. If they aren't, the event will come off as insincere and phony—and your credibility will suffer.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

Putting a credible form of Brexit to the people and offering Remain as an alternative will give Labour the chance to unite as a party.

If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

A brand today is much more than status. Consumers have to be able to trust it.

When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.

Much of what is reported on TV and other media outlets is actually pseudo or junk science, which is not real science, but is passed off as such.

The world's failure to live up to the impossible promises of the positive-thinking credo did not convince these men of the credo's impracticality, but rather that the world was in a sad state of decline, that it had forsaken the true and correct path.2

Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief.

We therefore should be more skeptical than we seem to be about evidence presented to us secondhand. We should become accustomed to asking ourselves where the information originated, and how much distortion—deliberate or otherwise—is likely to have been introduced along the way.