Jean Piaget Quotes

Trust is an important lubricant of a social system. It is extremely efficient; it saves a lot of trouble to have a fair degree of reliance on other people's word. Unfortunately this is not a commodity which can be bought very easily.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.

The more you trust, the more you create trust..

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

You gotta trust a person to work with 'em.

Without trust, you cannot do anything.

I'm open to working with anybody and everybody as long as I have faith in them and they have faith in me.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

If you want me to be honest, be honest with me.

I always respect my team and my competitors. I never had problems with anybody.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we just give things to each other; if we don't know each other we find another way to handle it. If you think about it, each according to his or her abilities and each according to his or her needs is sort of the same thing as supply and demand.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.