Yet More Million Dollar Maxims
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010By Gary Screaton Page, Ph.D.
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At the peak of his business career, John J. Mitchell was President of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, and a financier of the first rank. Mitchell simplified his code of business ethics as follows:
1. There is no question that the golden rule is the best one to apply to business transactions.
2. I put myself in the place of the man with whom I am dealing and govern my actions accordingly.
3. Success has attended my efforts because of dealing with others as I would be dealt with.
4. My rule in investments has always been, look to the principal rather than to the interest.
[Gary Screaton Page, Ph.D. is a Registered Psychotherapist and author of Pressing Your Own Buttons: How to Take Control of Your Life So Others Don’t™ at http://ww.pressingyourownbuttons.com]