Charlie Munger Quotes

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Trust is the byproduct of integrity.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

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

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I never did anything dishonest.

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

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

Only men of character are trusted.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

In the end, all you have is your reputation.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.