Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I am not a cheater.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

Only men of character are trusted.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

He who is dishonest with respect to speech, is dishonest in everything.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

People asking my teammates, 'Is Arrieta a guy who'd try to cheat the system?' Honestly, hearing that kind of stuff come from some of the best players in baseball is honestly a compliment. I view it that way.

I don't cheat.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

I'll never cheat.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.