Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

Secrets don’t make friends.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

You never want to lie to your customers.

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

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

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Trust is built with consistency.

I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

I want my clients to trust me.