trusted advisors Quotes

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

As a President, you need to have someone around you who can tell you that you are wrong.

I think you can tell by the people who surround me the type of person that I am, and the people I rely on in my close circle are trusted, respected, experienced.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

I have good people around me who guide me, tell me where I should put my money.

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

I know my limitations. I know I'm not perfect. I know what I know, but more importantly, I know what I don't know. When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.

Everyone's got advice, everyone's got their two cents. Try to streamline, like, who are the people that I trust the most? Sometimes I call it my board of directors. They're going to challenge you, but they're also going to support you. They're not going to just tell you what you want to hear, either.

Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.

It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.

Seed stage is an investment area that is really important for early stage startups. It feels like there is a need for trusted, experienced people to work with and to guide startups at this level.

There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.