telling it like it is Quotes

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.

Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

I am blunt when I want to be.

I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

I like to be honest, and after all these years I can't be bothered being politically correct.