Alexander Osterwalder Quotes

You may hear the most beautiful things, you may hear promises, you may hear everything you want to hear but if the person you're dating is not following up with their actions then they're just words.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Saying and doing are two things.

Rather judge a person by his actions than by his words; because many act badly and speak splendidly.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

People say what they want in interviews, but when they get a contract, they say other things.

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.