Quotes About Reliability

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For example, more baggage animals were needed because Mary's bed often arrived late at its destination.

An affection that was calculated was never trustworthy.

There is nothing reliable to be learned about making money. If there were, study would be intense and everyone with a positive IQ would be rich.

The only purpose of economic forecasts is to give astrology a better image.

An uneven distribution of information hinders negotiations and limits what can be contracted. Information transmission requires devices that ensure the communications are reliable. Another such issue is that a market works well only if people can trust each other. Trust requires mechanisms to bolster it since, regrettably, not everyone is inherently trustworthy.

This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

Very few can be trusted with an education.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as well. Also, be extremely conservative with your investments.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.