Zig Ziglar Quotes

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

In Canada, things are very honest.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

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

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

It's frustrating when people question your integrity.

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

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?