Robert C. Solomon Quotes About Trust

• Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.84, Oxford University Press

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• True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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• Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.86, Oxford University Press

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• We also confuse trust with familiarity.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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• Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

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  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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