Diego Costa Quotes

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

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.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

You don’t tell the truth just some of the time… The American people deserve the truth all of the time.

Politicians have to be themselves because if they are not, in the end, the people will see through it.

You cannot be leading if you are misleading. Democracy is based on trust.

I cannot deceive my people.

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.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

If a coach wants me to stay, then I think it's good that he doesn't just butter things up, but actually tells the truth.

I've played for managers who said one thing and did another and players find you out like that. You've got to trust them and they've got to trust you.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

Ya know, I just want a girl to be honest.

You never want to lie to your customers.

I have little time for sincerity.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.