Kimberly Guilfoyle Quotes

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

If there's one thing that I have in this business, it's respect.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

Our business was built on trust.

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

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

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?'

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Whenever I have a job, it's very important for me to handle myself in a way so that when there's another person, a young person of color, or even someone who's my age now, that they'll say, 'Oh, Dule was cool. Yeah, he handled his business. Yeah, he really added to what we did here,' so maybe we'll do it again.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

When I first came to NBC, I thought it was going to be swimming with the sharks, all men for themselves, be careful and all that. I have to tell you I learned that you can be kind and a hard worker and move up. You don't have to play dirty or do things that you think happens at big corporations.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.