Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

Money is just what facilitated our relationship.

Find a little private quiet time each day to bow your head in recognition of all those who knowingly or unwittingly contributed to what you are and to what you have today. By performing this little exercise regularly,

“Ben Azzai said, hasten to commit good acts and flee from misdeed since every good act encourages another in its wake, while every misdeed eases the way to the next.”3

You have to find ways to make sure that the wage paid to you is a bargain. You have to find out what most needs doing, and you have to do it. You have to know when you have made a mistake, and you must bring it to the attention of your boss or supervisor . . . oops! I mean, your customer.

(1) learn, (2) understand, and (3) practice.

Remember that deference does not mean humiliation, and service does not mean fawning obsequiousness.

You may think that you can remain uninfluenced by the things you hear, but it just isn’t so.

Newsweek stated that a total of 137,000 workers had lost their jobs in the companies highlighted in the story and held the story’s Corporate Killers responsible for the loss. Yet Newsweek failed to mention that the U.S. economy during that period was adding 137,000 new jobs every three weeks!

You’re probably saying that morning prayer service is not designed for making business contacts. Of course, it isn’t, but remember that the idea is to make contacts specifically in an environment that does not shriek out your self interest.