Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science with new ingenious devices and techniques can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
A firm for instance that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time labour and money in providing for translation services.
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans services and products and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best regardless of how much he receives for his services or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world not to be the biggest.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
I have a huge active imagination and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices I'll just turn into a madwoman.