Sophie Kinsella Quotes

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

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent.

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly where her son is at every moment.

In politics there is no honor.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The U-Tube Moment: The cameras are always on.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

If a coach isn't honest, players rumble him.

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out.

We need to bring down service fees, become much more transparent and regain trust from consumers.

At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.

It makes it so much easier to work with people who you can implicitly trust.

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.