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Franklin on Making Excuses

He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin

Ed McMahon on Honesty as the Best Policy

Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. Famous American TV celebrity Ed McMahon

Honest Companies Succeed

?After over thirty years on Wall Street, I have seen many firms who thirty or even twenty years ago occupied the front rank, recede into positions of comparative unimportance, and I have seen other firms, who two or three decades ago were quite unimportant, come to the front and become leaders in domestic and international finance. The reason is they had been more honest than those who were the leaders at one time.? (Jacob Schiff, who led the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Company to an industry leader)

Buffett on Integrity

Warren Buffett knows good businesses when he sees them. He became the second wealthiest man in America by investing in the best of them. This is what he says about the importance of integrity in business: ?Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don?t have the first, the other two will kill you.? Warren Buffett ? Omaha World Herald, February 1, 1994.

Who's Swimming Naked?

Everyone can look good in the good times. When things go wrong you see what people are really made of. As Warren Buffett, America's greatest investor says, ?It?s only when the tide goes out that you learn who?s been swimming naked.? Warren Buffett, quoted by Andrew Kilpatrick, ?Of Permanent Value?

Buffett on Choosing a Business Partner

Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, said this about choosing a business partner: ?I think you?ll probably start looking for the person that you can always depend on; the person whose ego does not get in his way; the person who?s perfectly willing to let someone else take the credit for an idea as long as it worked; the person who essentially won?t let you down who thought straight as opposed to brilliantly.? Warren Buffett, quoted by Andrew Kilpatrick in ?Of Permanent Value?

Optimistic People Succeed

Metropolitan Life used the Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire to identify the optimists and pessimists that they hired. They then tracked them and found that the optimists outsold the pessimists. The margin of difference was remarkable - 20 percent difference in sales the first year, 50 percent the second year. (Written by Steve Miller. Source: Speaker?s Library of Business Stories, Griffith, Joe, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Copyright 1990.)

Real Stature and Service

?No man has ever risen to real stature until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.? Woodrow Wilson

Emerson on Virtue

?The virtue you would like to have, assume it as already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in the character of the part he plays.? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning Good Behavior by Watching

It?s easier to learn good behavior by watching it than by hearing about it. (Frank A. Clark)

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