Why is honesty the wealth of a person's life?

To be a round person, the purpose is to work more smoothly, expand my career and achieve greater success in life, instead of being opportunistic and unscrupulous, which ultimately goes against my goal of pursuing success in life. If this is the case, it is really the opposite of each other.

A young man in the American education and training industry studied under eight successful teachers, four of whom owned their own private jets. The young man once asked three of the teachers, "How can I be as rich as you in my life, do very big business and be very stable?"

Strangely, the answers of the three teachers are all the same: to succeed, you must always be an upright person and always do the right thing.

Young people didn't understand it at first, especially after hearing the first teacher say this philosophy of life, and thought to themselves, "Oh, a teacher is a teacher." He believes that the identity of teachers determines that teachers love to sing high-profile, even if they do bad things on weekdays, they have the obligation to teach students integrity.

When the young man asked another teacher, his attitude became more sincere. That morning, he sent his teacher back to China. At breakfast at the airport, he said, "Teacher, you are leaving soon. I don't know how many times I can see you in my life. Tell me, what is the most fundamental thing for me to expand my business? " The teacher replied, "Remember: always do the right thing and always be an upright person." Hearing this, the young man's doubts deepened.

When he asked this question to another teacher for the third time, he got the same answer. He had to think seriously: Why did they give me the same answer on different occasions? With the expansion of young people's business and team, he began to understand that what the teachers said was indeed a truth.

The heroic era of individual single-handedly breaking into the world has long passed, and now it is an era of cooperation, competition and confrontation between collectives. A person must have his own team if he wants to succeed in his career. In today's era, all successful people are in the team, at the peak or top level. Except for the masters with strong originality in culture and art, all successful people have their own teams. So why do these team members follow them? One of the important reasons is that these successful people are honest and do things right, thus winning the trust of team members. Only trust, people will follow you.

Integrity is a necessary quality for a leader. Every leader needs followers, and followers are an act of trust, that is, having confidence in the leader. And honesty has such a power that it can win the trust of others. In the case of competition or conflict, honesty can make leaders mobilize institutional, political, psychological and other resources, so as to meet the motives of followers. When the motivation of followers is satisfied, there is leadership.

If a leader or manager is dishonest, his followers will not feel safe. Subordinates will not blindly follow someone, and a person cannot be tied to any institution forever. The most rare talent is the person who has the means to lead a group of collective creations. In this case, the most important quality of people who want to achieve great things is integrity. No matter what kind of management mode a company adopts, honesty is an out-and-out principle for leaders.

As leaders and managers, so should employees. If a person is dishonest and has a low character, it is doubtful how the person in charge of recruitment will choose him, how the boss will entrust him with important tasks, and whether the boss will leave such a person in the office. If you are dishonest, you will add a series of high walls to your job search. It can be said that honesty and trustworthiness is a great guarantee for a person to seek career development.

Bacon said: "Even dishonest people will admit that honesty and integrity are the glory of human nature, and mixing authenticity with authenticity is like mixing gold and silver with alloy, which may make gold and silver more convenient to use, but it makes their quality cheaper." Hugo once said: "Being a saint is a special case; Being an upright person is the right way. " Successful people in any era have a common feature, that is, integrity is the inherent character they pursue all their lives.

Franklin's many supporters in America have a lot to do with his integrity. Doing things fairly, devoting himself wholeheartedly, devoting himself to public welfare undertakings and being honest in words and deeds have won Franklin great reputation and support.

Franklin wrote in his autobiography: "I believe more and more that integrity is the most important thing for people to get happiness in their communication."

The power of honesty is strong and lasting. It can make people open-minded, have a sense of morality and follow their own conscience. Honest people have a kind of inner peace, and they can bear setbacks and even unfair treatment. Martin Luther was the initiator of the Reformation in Germany in the16th century. He stuck to his just cause all his life. Even when he was sentenced to death, he said to his enemy, "It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against your conscience. I stick to my position; God will help me, I can't make other choices. "

Korean proverb also says: "Integrity is a person's wealth in his life." The great Frank Lloyd Wright once gave a speech to the teachers and students of American Institute of Architecture. He said: "What does this reputation mean? For example, what is the reputation of a brick? That's real brick: what's the reputation of a plate? That is a real board tree. What is a person's reputation? This is to be an upright person. " Frank Lloyd Wright himself is like this. He has followed this principle all his life and is worthy of being loyal to his own standard of living.

Zuo Yinglun of Ming Dynasty in China was upright and had a decent office. He worked as a magistrate and county magistrate, moved several times, and all the people sent him under umbrellas. He has been an official all his life, and he can come to a good end and get away with it. Zuo Yinglun understands that this is all based on his own "five hard" experience. In his later years, he wrote this "five hard" experience into the article "Show the Son" to persuade his children: "The husband should be hard when he is in trouble, hard when he remonstrates, hard when he refuses to take bribes and steal money, and hard when he is immersed."

This "five hard" experience, in modern vernacular, is that a gentleman should not be weak in front of powerful people, dare to speak out when he is an admonisher, be straightforward when he is a historian, be firm but not soft-hearted when he refuses bribes and money, and don't be credulous when others slander him. In a word, people must be honest.

These "five difficulties" seem easy, but they are difficult to do. Many officials are not greedy when they take office. Some people pay bribes and give gifts, and some refuse. However, because he was "soft-hearted", he couldn't hold up other people's rhetoric, so he gave ill-gotten gains at half-price and never confiscated them again. The more he comes, the better. In the final analysis, this is because he is dishonest and greedy. With honesty, this "five hard" will naturally stand up.

Integrity can inspire the light of our cause.

With integrity, support, trust, friendship, love, admiration and respect will follow. With honesty, success will not be too far away, and fame and fortune will not follow. People seem to have an almost instinctive ability to recognize honesty and are irresistibly attracted by it. Its principle is not materialized, and its matter is well known to the world.

We advocate roundness, which means honesty and integrity. As for how to grasp the discretion, we can refer to Franklin's statement: "The only way to persuade people is to do what they like first and then change their minds, but in this process, we must always adhere to the principle of justice." We do what we like for the benefit of both sides, without deviating from honesty, integrity and unprincipled. Similarly, the purpose of being a round person is to work more smoothly, expand my career and achieve greater success in life, rather than being opportunistic and unscrupulous, which ultimately runs counter to my original intention of pursuing success in life. If this is the case, it is really the opposite of each other.

—— Quoted from Yanbian People's Publishing House "Deciding Good Habits in Your Life"