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  • "Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced to trust."
    Daniel Webster (1782–1852), US statesman, orator, and lawyer
    Source: Speech in the US Senate (1834)
  • "Management by trust, empathy, and forgiveness sounds good. It also sounds soft. It is in practice tough. Organizations based on trust have, on occasion, to be ruthless."
    Charles Handy (1932–), Irish business executive and author
    Source: Harvard Business Review (November–December 1992)
  • "The superior confidence which people repose in the tall man is well merited. Being tall, he is more visible than other men and being more visible, he is much more closely watched."
    J. K. Galbraith (1908–2006), US economist and diplomat
    Source: The Scotch (1964)
  • "I am very careful about bringing people into my confidence. I want to see the color of their eyes."
    E. Gerald Corrigan (1941–), US investment banker and managing director of Goldman Sachs
    Referring to becoming president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis.
    Source: New York Times (December 30, 1984)
  • "Confidence placed in another often compels confidence in return."
    Livy (59 bc–ad 17), Roman historian
    Source: History of Rome (26 bc–15 ad)
  • "I've learned the perimeter of my circle of confidence."
    Warren Buffett (1930–), US entrepreneur and financier
    Source: Quoted in Treasury of Investment Wisdom (Bernice Cohen, 1999)
  • "The open bins and store rooms were symbols of trust, a trust that is central to the way HP does business."
    David Packard (1912–1996), US entrepreneur and cofounder of Hewlett-Packard
    Source: “Lessons of Leadership,” The Nation's Business (January 1974)
  • "Our trust in those who made the financial system work has been decimated—no less than we would lose faith in the water company if the taps started dripping cyanide."
    Peggy Drexler, US psychologist and author
    Source: Huffington Post blog (December 29, 2008)

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