Mark Walport Quotes

In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.

If you don't believe I'm a professional, do not sign me. And if you've signed me on a certain belief, don't question my integrity.

What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

I want my clients to trust me.

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

I'm very professional.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

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

Whosoever fails to take small matters seriously in the spirit of truth, cannot be trusted in greater affairs.

In the performance of your duties, neither be over-zealous, nor indifferent. When you do not know of a thing, say so plainly. In the narration of facts, refrain from poetising.

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Well, I try not to let people down in the work that I do or in how I conduct myself.

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

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

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

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

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

Once players have my trust, they have it.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.