Jeffrey Gitomer Quotes

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Only men of character are trusted.

Donald Trump Jr. is a very honest, very high-integrity person. I have known him for a long time. I have an enormous amount of respect for him.

Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

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

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.

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.

I never did anything dishonest.

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?'

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

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

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

I had made my reputation on integrity.

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.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.