Andrew Gotianun Quotes

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

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 don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

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.

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?'

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

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

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.