Richard Edelman 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.

Credibility is not a renewable resource in Washington.

Trust comes from transparency…

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other

The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.

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.

Trust is built with consistency.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I want my clients to trust me.

I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.

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.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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.

There’s no institution that you can trust all the time.

It is never good for a politician to have to defend his credibility.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /

Our government should not make promises we cannot keep. And we must keep the promises we have already made.