Trust Quotes - Page 24

• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Development, Waterfalls, Temperature

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

  Demosthenes

  Country, Mind, Democracy

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• It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Thinking, Remembrance

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.225, Read Books Ltd

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• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Men, Law, Play

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• A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, People, Quality

  Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (2008). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.238, Oxford University Press

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• My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

  Stark Young

  Mistake, Father, People

  Stark Young (1935). “Feliciana”

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• Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Commitment, Levels, Steps

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  Nicolas Walter

  Father Son, Men, People

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• RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Envy, Rich, Envious

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

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• With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

  Art Spiegelman

  Salt, Enough, Ifs

  "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.

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• Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

  Jalal Talabani

  Lovers, Interest

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• Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings.

  Eva Cox

  Order, Law, People

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• He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, World, Violence

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• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Possibility

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Kings, Dust, Rivers

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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• I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

  Douglas Bader

  Loyalty, Character, Thinking

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• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  Rowan Williams

  Fog, Hands, Haze

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

  Sue Halpern

  Running, Prayer, Exercise

  Sue Halpern (2011). “Migrations to Solitude”, p.144, Vintage

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• Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Fear, May, Providence

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42

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• It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Forever, Sometimes, Disappointed

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• Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

  Stephanie Mills

  Taken, Has Beens, Lots Of Money

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• I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

  Edna O'Brien

  Men, Competition, Built

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Disappointment, Eye, Years

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• When it comes to trust it is better to have it than to live without it.

  Jon Jones

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• Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

  John McKinley

  Smart, Decisions We Make, Tests

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