"You build trust with others each time..." - Quote by John C Maxwell
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
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“The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.”
“Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.”
“Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.”
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“Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
“A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.”
“Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.”
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“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.”
“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”