Unreliability quotes

Unreliability

7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

7 quotes
Charlie Munger
Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman

"What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability."

Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson Lawyer, Author

"When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me."

Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison Inventor

"I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution."

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