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Honesty and integrity are the most important of your values, they set the track that keep your life on course. A life lived honestly is a life lived devoid of fear or guilty conscience, because you live knowing that you did what you think was right. "Just about anything else you lose can be replaced  money, buildings, equipment, a whole company even. But your name, reputation and conscience once ruined can never be repaired, you have to live with that forever. " Honesty starts in complete congruency between what you say and what you do. Your word must be your bond. If you make this one of your unbreakable rules, people will trust you. In the long run term, trust and your good name are worth everything. They will build your future including business, will bring you people including customers, and will make your reputation valuable. Your life and business will only get easier as people recommend you and give you new and unexpected opportunities because thy want to do bus...

Having unbreakable values gives you a real sense of worth, because you've set your standards and met them,  and you know that you'll keep on meeting them. These can be personal moral standards, business ethics or the standards you set for your friends. Having no committed value or values will undermine whatever you achieve. If you can't look at your self and feel  you are the sort of person you want to be, what difference will money, sex and fame make. Bending your value will make you feel worthless destroy your self confidence and eat at your self esteem. Don't sell out your confidence and eat your self esteem, don't sell out for anybody or any amount of money. If your values are strong enough real success will come. Be patient, select your values that are fair and true and stick to these values life glue. In the long-term the rightness if your values will give you personal strength, the strength that breeds success.