Earn Lasting Trust Quotes
Trust is the only currency that compounds forever. The man who deals honestly, especially when it costs him, builds a name that outperforms any marketing. This Freedom path holds history's most valuable quotes on earning trust. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.”
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
“Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.”
“As a leader, it's a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.”
“Trust is essential in leading change, in leading people to do things with a sense of mission, in bringing conviction and belief and devotion to the effort but it’s not easy to build trust. Trust is built upon moral conduct.”
“At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that’s the largest source of business. I don’t care what kind of business you’re in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.”
“If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.”
“If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.”
“Trust is like the air we breathe – when it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.”
“Young man, make your name worth something.”
“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.”
“Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”
“No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.”
“Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another’s expense.”
“No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.”
“One of the essential ingredients for success is being pleasant and trustworthy because it allows whatever you are building-a business, a relationship, a project-to continue. Many relationships disintegrate before the rewards accumulate.”
“In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
“Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience, and it doesn’t preclude the necessity to train and develop people so that their competency can rise to the level of that trust.”
“Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.”
“It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.”
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