Credibility Quotes

• Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Leader, Currency

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• Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Character, No Trust

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

  Rick Warren

  People, Perfection, Quality

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.253, Zondervan

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• To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Giving Up

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being right doesn’t mean you win. You win by establishing credibility, a relationship, and trust.

  David Brock

  Mean, Winning

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• Accuracy builds credibility.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trust

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• Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

  Charley Reese

  Lost, Virginity

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• The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Important, Important Things, Right Thing

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

  Harvey Mackay

  Visibility, Copywriting

  Harvey MacKay (1993). “The Harvey Mackay Rolodex Network Builder”, MacKay Envelope Corporation

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• Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

  Rick Warren

  Demand

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• In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

  Brit Hume

  People, Literature, Want

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• For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

  Richard Cobden

  Gaps, Gullibility

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• The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Self, Interesting

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• A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Promise, Credible

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• Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

  Stephen Covey

  Truth, Honesty, Destruction

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• A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Vision, Cost

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

  Gerry Spence

  Feelings, Argument, Willingness

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• I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Motivational, Care, Motivation

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• If you don't know,say so. It's a simple statement that enhances credibility.

  W. Brett Wilson

  Simple, Knows, Ifs

  W Brett Wilson (2012). “Redefining Success: Still Making Mistakes”, p.97, Penguin Canada

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• Credibility is a basic survival tool.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Survival, Tools

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.

  Louis C. K.

  Climbing, Two, People

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.

  Jimmy Breslin

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• You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

  Bradley Whitford

  Believe, Speaks Out, Want

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• I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Succeed, Journalism

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