THOUGHTS FOR THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST

It is clear that many of Wall Street’s brightest and best never learned from the following thought provoking reflections. Surely they made millions, but they never profited from the wisdom of these beliefs:.


1.- Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. Emmons

2.- High ethical standards bring about efficient business methods. Watts

3.- Ethical living is the indispensable condition of all that is worthwhile in the world. – Ernest Caldecott

4.- If money is all that a man makes, then he’ll be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. – Herbert N. Casson

5.- Everywhere in life the true question is not how much money we have made, but what have we done with our lives. – Carlyle

6.- Aside from the strictly moral standpoint, honesty is not only the best policy, but the only possible policy from the standpoint of business relations. The fulfillment of the pledged word is of equal necessity to the conduct of all business. If we expect and demand virtue and honor in others, the flame of both must burn brightly within ourselves and shed their light to illuminate the erstwhile dark corners of distrust and dishonesty …. The truthful answer rest for the most part within ourselves, for like begets like, Honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on through the whole category of desirable practices that must govern and control the business’s affairs. James F. Bell

7.- Money is only a mechanism to be used, not a divinity to be worshipped. – Anonymous

8.- Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. – Henrik Ibsen

9.- Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end. – Gambetta

10.- You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life’s best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. – Minot Simons

HZ