Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.

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

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

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

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbors should be true to the public.

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

As of right now, I have two votes, mine and Jimmy's. I'm sure of Jimmy because he said he is gonna vote for me and Jimmy never tells a lie.

Oaths are crutches, upon which lies go.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

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

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.