Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

I wouldn't trust [Richard] Nixon from here to that phone.

There is not a single human being that I trust!

You can't trust people.

If one player does not trust the other players, that player should not play.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

Let no such man be trusted.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.