Is trust more valuable than money?

[MrEazyLife]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

To say, no one will want to put there money where they just have full confidence and assurance safety, be it investment of saving. Meaning trust works hand in hand when it involves money. Yes you can get money lost back in most cases. But you will never want to put your trust in to where it will be questionable.

[leonair]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

Trust is something that cannot be easily earned and once the trust is lost, it cannot be easily regained. You will earn money and spend it to spend money, but trust is a person's greatest asset. It may take you a year to earn trust first and once that trust is lost, you will not get it back even in five years, so trust is a very valuable asset. You can earn money in any way, but the only way to earn trust is through love and helping people. So of course, trust is more valuable than money. You cannot buy trust with money, but you can earn a lot of money through trust.

[mindrust]

Trump has no one's trust. Even his allies don't trust him and yet he can still buy out whatever and whomever he wants. Trust is important but we don't live in those old times where trust was above everything. Nowadays money is much more important. With enough money, you can rewrite your own history. Many scammers do it. People simply forget, or don't care, or both.

[Russlenat]

We can have all the money just by working hard, but we can't gain the trust of everyone if we don't exert efforts and show goodness for everyone. Money can be earn in days, weeks or months, but trust is not even sure if we can earn it in years.  So its clear that money is just a liability, trust becomes more of a valuable asset and trait that anyone cannot steal nor own, but earn it when the right time comes.

Money can be our ultimate goal these days, but more than that, we need our employers and bosses to trust us first so we will be given opportunity to earn and make more money.

[Cityhunter34]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

Trust is very important in life because when there is trust, there is great hope for a person's future. Honestly, we need to value someone who trusts us more than anything, because its very hard to find someone who will put their trust in you, especially now that people are unpredictable. We all know that money has power more than anything, but at the same time, we should try as much as possible not to lose trust, because everything is not all about money.

[Maslate]

Money is essential, but trust is the backbone that paves way to provide for our essentials like money. If there is no trust from our heads, from our clients and customers, I don't think we will be given such opportunities to earn money. So we can't deny that trust should come first, its our top priority, because when there is no trust, making money will never be possible as well.

However, money will always be the foundational tool for survival. No one will argue with that, regardless if there is no trust built.

[Ziskinberg]

If you want to live for a day, money will always be the most valuable for you. But if you want to live for months, years or decade, you need trust to live and ensure life's survival. When there is no trust, life becomes less meaningful to live because money alone cannot make you happy, but the love and trust you receive from other people, they're actually the drivers towards living a good and meaningful life.

But its a good feeling if you have both, money and trust. We have to earnestly work for them to achieve them.

[Agbamoni]

Money is easy to give, but trust is hard. Money opens doors to many things, while trust keeps those doors open for a very long. And if the trust is not broken, it remains like that permanently. Well, we live in a world where people will choose to have that quick money, not minding if the trust is broken. What they believe is that there will be another person to repeat the same thing to.

[Bitcoin.com97]

Op you are very correct,trust is a valuable asset that can open more doors of opportunities,money that is lost, one can get it back ,but when there is no trust ,it's very hard to get it back ,may people place value on money and leave some necessary things that will help keep the money , sometime ago a friend of mine got a referral to work for someone,which he charged very well for materials and labor, and the client paid in full without hisstation ,but the guy ended up using inferior material,after sometime everything stopped working,the client didn't tell him anything but instead of introducing him to his friends he was just telling people what he did ,he placed value on money instead of trust , been trust worthy would have gotten him more jobs and money will definitely follow ,but he lack trust.

[Samlucky O]

Trust is more valuable than money I agree with you %100. when people  trust you, they can even leave you with a valuable asset comfortably, and when you don't have money but needed money for a business, because of the trust people have for you, they can give you the desired amount you requested and your plan will be executed. It is good to chase money but when chasing money don't chase away trust. I have a friend in my working place, we do same business and earn same amount but he lacks financial management. He spent money too quickly and people know him for that. At first when he asks for loan we give to him because regardless of his lavish lifestyle he refund the money as promised because we trust him. But ever since he began to owe without repayment and always have one excuse or the other, he lost the trust we had for him. Almost everyone in our department no one is ready to help him because he was not to be trusted anymore. Trust is very important in life, even if you don't have money let people trust you.

[X-ray]

Trust is what makes things expensive or cheaper. If you have bad credit score which equal to trust in many cases, you will have a hard time getting loan. The only lender you'd meet are the one with high interests rate.

And if you lose trust as a businessman people will rarely make their dealings with you, that is so many opportunity lost which means less money in the future.

Always choose trust over short term money if you plan to live a long life otherwise you'd be getting yourself into living a miserable life.

[Rruchi man]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back.

Trust and money are both currencies, but some people do not understand that. They think that money is the only available currency we have, whereas you also have trust, which is an even bigger currency than money. With trust, somebody could proceed through life without money in some certain situations.

As individuals, I believe that evidence of proper maturity should be our trustworthiness; that means we should become more trustworthy as we become mature and responsible, not the other way around.

[fuguebtc]

That depends on the type of relationship we are talking about.

In relationship such as those between spouses, parents and childre, or friend, trust is valued more than money. In business or politics, things are different. Trust is still important, but money and interests are more important and often more decisive

In business, you do not need to waste time trying to build trust with everyone. Instead, if you show them value and what you can bring to the table, they will not reject or ignore you
Similarly in politics, there are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. Trust is secondary compared to interest.

[Tmoonz]

Trust can put you into a better situation even if you have no money. For the desperate people, money is everything. But for a wise man, he understands that if he's trustworthy, that is the valuable thing that he has to protect for himself. Not only for survival but for an honor as a human being. It's hard to give trust to anybody and people are not easily trusting others, and so if it's given to you and you're respected. That's hard to take back unless you do something crazy that's hard to believe. I'd rather be trusted than earn money in illegal money.

Naturally trust is very hard to earned you must have gone through processes, proper examination on different occasions before you can be entrusted and gaining this means a lot to anyone because it will definitely take you far in life and even after death and one like just as we say that good names is better than riches, this is a perfect example of how trust can be more valuable than money, having a good name as that of a trusted person can even open doors for financial opportunities for you not just you but for your future and future generations, trust is a good name every one should have.

[viljy]

To put it briefly, trust can be converted into money, but money cannot be converted into trust. Trust can only be earned. And trust, for example, from business partners, can be easily lost. Therefore, trust is truly more valuable than money. Trust is an intangible asset that can generate not only profits but also promote advancement in the hierarchy of power, such as being a protégé who can be relied upon by your patron.

[Kelward]

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

There is a lot of wisdom in what you said that money can open doors but it is trust that keeps the door open so in another word if you don't have integrity people won't see you as a reputable person to trust and do business with. If you are a scammer you will only make money once and never show your face again in the area that you scammed someone or people but if your business is genuine you will keep coming back with confidence and continue to do business in the area for as long as possible.

If you are trustworthy you will get recommendations for your jobs and businesses because you're reliable and the referrals will continue to increase beyond regions where you can personally cover by yourself.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Here we go again. We keep comparing money with health, time, happiness and now trust.

Many of us claim that money is not as important or as valuable as those thing. But in reality, most of us spend a large part of our lives chasing money. This shows money is far more valuable than we are often willing to admit

I do not think any of us would spend so much time building trust with others if it brought us no value or benefit. At the end of the day, trust is simply a means of creating value and that value can often be turned into money.

[Fortify]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

Both can come and go, but trust can be easily lost - yes that is true. However you can rebuild trust if someone gives you a second chance, but expect them to verify randomly for a long time ahead if you are given another chance. When it comes to building friendships you should definitely stick to your word and expect the same in reverse, because that is the very foundation. It tends to be people that don't have their shit together who turn up late or bail entirely which most people can support to an extent, but who needs unnecessary drama in their lives like that? Money is hard to come by and can be lost very quickly if you're not careful, but beyond that I'm not sure there is much else comparable.

[Jody.Drummer]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

I believe that trust cannot be regained any more than money that has been lost. Someone who has previously trusted us but we disappoint them will find it difficult to regain their trust, even if we give them a chance. However, gaining trust is certainly difficult. Money, on the other hand, can have a big influence, and it can make others trust us, but it depends on the concept. My advice is that if someone has given us their trust, don't disappoint them. We must strive to maintain that trust. Another statement is that even though trust can be regained, the chances are slim because it is tied to one person, while money can be obtained in various different ways.

[m2017]

You can earn back money but you will never be able to gain someone's trust back. For example you lose 5 thousand dollars in a bad deal. You can manage to get it back by one way or the other like working overtime or start again but if you lose someone's trust the doors might get shut forever. Reputation is a single street.

Trust, like money, is a resource that takes a long time and effort to accumulate, but can be lost in a matter of moments (I would call it a very fragile resource). I also believe that reputation is a non-renewable resource, like time. Because if trust is lost, even after all the reputational compensation and reputation restoration, it can't be fully restored to its previous level. How could it be otherwise? If someone has treated you badly once, what guarantees are there that they won't do it again? None. This means that the "victim" will always remain entrenched in the feeling of incomplete trust.

Money open the doors while trust keeps them open. You will be able to get your first meeting with an investor or partner while trust will give you repeat business and referrals. Money has the price while trust is the multiplier. Money is the tool but trust is the capital. What are your thoughts?

Trust is a tool just like money, which allows to open a window of new opportunities in human society.

I think it would be interesting to see philosophical reflections on trust from those who have lost it (as part of the forum).