Loyalty speaks most in silence. It reveals itself in absence. People are loyal to the gain, not to you.

When success is present, the environment is crowded. Everyone stays close, everyone supports. Success grants power and status. The people who are with you while you are winning are not truly yours.

True loyalty, on the other hand, appears in an invisible place. In the invisible place, when your power diminishes, and the benefits you provide disappear...

When people no longer think they can get anything from you. That is when the crowd around you quickly dissolves, and this dissolution happens silently.