ONLY WHAT YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

Jewish proverb

False witness, accidental or purposely, is the same.

If you didn't see it don't speak of it as though you did.

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

"A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) British novelist

Even more so in this age of instant communication.

Choose what you say (and type) very carefully, it will outlast you, on occasion having outdone you.

Here's What I Think

"Think all you speak, but speak not all you think."

Unknown

And still most of us most of the time do the opposite.

Did You Hear . . . ???

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."

Spanish proverb

Something to remember the next time you say something personal about yourself to someone who just said something personal about someone else to you.

Candidly Speaking

"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

16th century French philosopher

Paraphrasing, if you're (wo)man enough to think it, much less say it behind the back of someone else, be (wo)man enough to say it to them as well.

Office Gossip: "Did You Hear . . . ?"

"One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Alexander Pope
18th century English poet

What is the ratio of time you spend thinking/talking about your customers, competition, co-workers?

What do you think is the value of doing the first two versus the last?