Business Trust Quotes

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

I think there are many honest businessmen.

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.

When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

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.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

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?'

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

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

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Business thrives with trust. Every single business transaction is based on trust. Trust is what you deal in. From trust emerges a safe and predictable environment.

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Central to the effective functioning of early capitalism was the fundamental principle of trusting and being trusted.

It is important that we win back the trust of employees first, then customers.

When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.