Quotes About Honest Business

#1. It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Where will you go?" "To the safest place in London," he says with a rueful smile. "A place that loved your husband and will never forgive Duke Richard for betraying him. The only honest business in London." "Where d'you mean?" "The whorehouse," he says with a grin.

Philippa Gregory

#3. I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.

Dan Butler

#4. As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

Hank Johnson

#5. I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.

Marshall Field

#6. In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunatics and are to be avoided. It's just insecurity; actors are generally quite insecure. I wouldn't date, or I've never had a fling with an actress, and I'd quite like to keep it that way.

Rory McCann

#7. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Kerry Stokes

#8. If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Kate Spade

#9. Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#10. I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Otto Von Bismarck

#11. Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

John Adams

#12. As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

Burning Spear

#13. I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Marty Robbins

#14. A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.

Ross Perot Jr.

#16. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Dave Barry

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

Sydney Madwed

#20. One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

William Feather

#21. Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

Bobby Davro

#22. The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

Terry Teachout

#23. The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.

Scott Lynch

#24. A woman in show business isn't honest with herself ... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.

Ida Lupino

#25. The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

David Ogilvy

#27. There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

Andrew Gotianun

#28. Public business, my son, must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

David McCullough

#29. Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

Timi Nadela

#30. It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

#31. I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

#32. 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.

Mark Skousen

#33. Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

Billy Graham

#34. I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

Amrita Acharia

#35. Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment... Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be.

G. Michael Maddock

#36. I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Simon Cowell

#37. When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Edward Abbey

#38. I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

Heinrich Von Pierer

#39. Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Michael Hintze

#40. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

Bob Parsons

#41. But I tell you what it is; an honest and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on eating' you up.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#42. I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

Eva Mendes

#43. One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

Susan Cain

#44. Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

John Stossel

#45. I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently ... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Anita Roddick

#46. Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

Derek Blasberg

#47. Peace of counscious is greater than peace of mind. Peace of mind is more externally oriented. Peace of consciousness is when you know you have been honest in all your business dealings.

Stephen Covey

#48. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.

Susan Cain

#49. I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Rupert Everett

#50. If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth ... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

Don Lemon

#51. To be entirely honest, I am an extremely confident person, and I don't think I would have gotten into this business if I felt that I wasn't going to succeed and I intend to be in this business, for the rest of my life.

Erika Christensen

#52. If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Noel Gallagher

#53. Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Andrew Gotianun

#54. To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Fiona Shaw

#55. Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Ivan Reitman

#56. If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#57. I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

Alan Sugar

#58. Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

Glenn Beck

#59. Columbia Business School even has a term for it now. They call it "honest overconfidence" and they have found that men on average rate their performance to be 30 percent better than it is.

Katty Kay

#60. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#61. I found myself wanting the monster because it was honest, a level of honesty most go their entire lives without confronting, always content to hide behind their social masks and business cards. It

Kitty Thomas

#62. I've been on jobs like that before, everyone stuck on the money not the work, watching their backs every minute. Bad for your health and your business. We'll do this civilised, or not at all. What do you say?
"I say civilised," said Shenkt. "For pity's sake, let's kill like honest men.

Joe Abercrombie