Dear lovely people,
In the words of Stephen
Covey “The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of
dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if
everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too”
There was a farmer who sold a
pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to
see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This angered him
and he took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he was using any
measure. The farmer replied, “Your Honor,
I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale."
The judge asked, "Then how do you
weigh the butter?" The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me,
I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker
brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter.
If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."
This is what I tell people
often. “We get back in life what we give to others.” Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this
question: Am I giving fair value for the wages or money I hope to make? Honesty
and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie with
a straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the truth is
anymore. But who are they deceiving? Themselves.
“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and
dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest.
The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it
would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful
to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor
of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work
of his brain or his hands is dishonest.” ― Ralph Moody
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