A discussion about business ethics, character traits, integrity, and values

From Earl Nightengale:

“A hard thing for most people to fully understand is that people in such numbers can be so wrong. If most people are living that way, it must be right, they think. But a little checking will reveal that throughout all recorded history the majority of mankind has an unbroken record of being wrong about most things, especially important things.”

Most Americans seem to get their economic, political and social information from celebrities rather than from people who actually know something. If Meryl Streep or Jessica Lange play a farmer’s wife in a movie, that doesn’t qualify them to testify before congress. If Ted Danson says the ozone is going and we’ll all be dead by Friday, don’t sell your ski boat on Thursday. If Tom Cruise says anything, who cares?

Back to Earl Nightengale:

“For a time we thought the earth was flat and later we thought the sun, stars and planets traveled around the earth. Both ideas are now considered ridiculous, but at the time they were believed and defended by the vast majority of followers.”

Do a little checking. Think for yourself. Be your own spokesman.