The Eight Best Quotes on Building Trust in Business
One of the fundamental principles in developing meaningful relationships is trust. Impactful companies rely on radical transparency, strong connection and the ability to trust their team to get the job done.
The most successful leaders in the world have all embraced and suggested trust as the main component to thriving in business and in life. To celebrate today’s kickoff of Dreamforce 2018, here are eight quotes on trust that will help you succeed anywhere.
Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce
“In the world of these new connected products, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in this multi-stakeholder dialog that we have here at Davos, trust has to be the highest value in your company, and if it’s not something bad is going to happen to you.” (tweet)
“What is the most important thing in your company — is it trust or is it growth? If anything trumps trust, we are in trouble…You have to choose what is really important to you. We are in a new world… and trust better be number one.” (tweet)
Rachel Botsman, Author, “Who Can You Trust?”
“A trust leap is when we take a risk to do something new or to do it differently from the way that we’ve done something before.” (tweet)
“Most businesses that we interact with are built around money, and money only goes so far. Money is the currency of transactions. Trust is the currency of interactions.” (tweet)
“As technology enables trust in new forms, we’re seeing a decline of trust in institutions.” (tweet)
Adrien Grenier, Co-founder, Lonely Whale
“By doing so, you make fruitful connections and develop a business model that works, which helps bolster your chance of teaming up with famous folks and ensuring goals are aligned.” (tweet)
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber
“The higher up in the chain of command you are, the harder it is to really know what’s going on, so you have to discover the right information out of your people. You have to be great at reading body language and asking questions. You have to engender trust to get to the real stuff. Leaders who are disconnected with reality are the ones who fail.” (tweet)
