Be Not Deceived ~ Be Useful and of Good Skill
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“A night of peaceful sleep is worth more than all the king’s coins.”
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“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
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Does it not seem apparent;
a common ideal all should posses would be a desire to make something people will want and enjoy?
If they enjoy and can use the thing you make, a skill you have or a better idea you project and people can derive profit from it – good feelings, to make a better life and/or beneficial knowledge, then good words will spread.
Make something useful or be useful in a skill or craft.
Do not give into the modern trend of concocting schemes based on deception. It will come back on you like a thief in the night.
This is on my mind because I went to a repair shop because of a discount for a front end alignment … They said I needed the camber adjusted to the tune of $400 in labor ! ( I knew that task only takes a ‘lil over an hour to remove the knock outs that GM sets in the factory and install adjustable bolts ) I then heard the man tell a woman she needed a new water pump because the pulley was misaligned (to put it short) … How long can a business last by milking the public?
It gets better –
I told them SEEYA – and went to a shop that has been in business since the 60s – the guy that does the alignments has been doing it for decades. OF COURSE the camber was perfect and NOTHING wrong with it. I now have a perfectly aligned front end of course.
The worst part of the first shop was all the bibles and religious trappings on the walls and strewn around the waiting room area … including a pump bottle of hand sanitizer complete with an ornate cross graphic !
How can someone practice deception under a religious guise and sleep at night?
Surely, failure waits for them just around the corner.
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
– George Washington
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“Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.”
“Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.”
– John Wanamaker
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