Use Money Love People

March 19, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice

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The main message of this article is to use money and love people; not the other way around!

Too many people get so attached / consumed with making money they step all over those who are helping them. Remember that life is a long game and ultimately every company is made of people. Money is an amazing slave but a horrible master and if you guide your actions based soley on money while not respecting people you will neither be rich nor liked. (Not a good combo.) Also karma has a way of biting you. Just because you screwed someone over on a business deal doesn’t mean you’re going to have the same thing happen but you can count on something of negative of roughly the equivalent happening to you; most likely in another aspect of your life.

A strong unhealthy love of money at all costs leads to greed. Greed is a negative twin brother of ambition. It’s a fine line between being ambitious and an opportunistic shark who doesn’t know when to quit. The line however is clearly marked in the sand. Greed leads otherwise sound business people to make foolish mistakes. Ever held a stock that had huge promise that doubled and you still didn’t sell because of greed? You thought this will go even higher and I’ll make even more only to wake up to a bad press release watching it plummet to about half of what it was worth before you bought it? Greed also causes people to use other people for their own gain. I don’t even have to mention that it can turn business bitter.

The message of this post above all else is that being ambitions is fine in fact encouraged and we all want to be successful. The issue is pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. Don’t be a hog who uses people. Love people and treat them with respect and your business will grow exponentially in ways you never thought possible!

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Excellent post

I’ve often thought to myself that I would be making a heckuva lot more money if I didn’t care about the people I work with and serve.

Thankfully I DO care!

Kelly wrote on March 24, 2008 - 6:35 am | Visit Link

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