How important is trust in establishing long-term business relationships? Well you can’t have a long-term relationship without trust so trust is really important. If I owned a business, which I don’t, but if I did and I hired a new employee I would keep an eye on him until I could trust him. Everyone I trust I’ve known for a long time. You don’t just meet someone and then instantly trust them. It takes time for someone to trust you. So trust is important in the real world and in the business world. So to establish a long-term business relationship I would need to trust the person before establishing a long-term business relationship with them. So yes trust is very important in establishing a long-term business relationship, but trust isn’t only important for establishing a long-term business relationship trust is important in almost everything you do. For example if you sit down on a chair you expect it to hold you up, your trusting the chair, But that’s just a minor example of trust.