Lionel Shriver Quotes

I say exactly what I am going to do and how I am going to vote, and I have a 13-year record to back it up.

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

I always keep my word.

As I've said all along, I don't make promises I can't keep, and I won't propose things we can't pay for.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.

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.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I want my clients to trust me.

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

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.

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.

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

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

In Canada, things are very honest.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!