A Quote by Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Stephen Covey

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Glue Organizations Relationships Trust

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Brian Tracy

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

Price Pritchett

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Stephen Covey

You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

Maya Angelou

Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class.

Sarah Rees Brennan

With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

When a horse falls, foam comes out of its mouth. When it falls, the legs of the horse thrash and the horse is no good... So somebody shoots it. The horse turns into glue. A machine puts the glue into bottles and children squeeze the bottles to get the glue out and stick bits of paper onto cards. Glue gets on the children's hands and the children eat the glue. And the children become the horse.

Maureen Medved

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships

Tony Dungy

Positive words are the glue that holds relationships together.

Tom Rath

I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.

John Noble

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

John Noble

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.

Bruce D. Perry

To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.