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On Jan 29, 2:21*pm, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Let the Record show that "Karl Townsend"
on or about Fri, 29 Jan 2010
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rec.crafts.metalworking *the following:



I recently read a Warren Buffet quote: "Someone once said that in
looking for people to hire you look for three qualities: integrity,
intelligence, and energy. *And if they don't have the first, the other
two will kill you."

Man I couldn't agree more. Give me a person with integrity and a good work

* * * * Integrity will give you a "good work ethic".

* * * * Buffet's point is that a hard worker without integrity, is working
for themselves, not you.

Being ethical and having integrity are one in the same. Warren
Buffets wants people he can trust. I expect that he understands
people who seek profit for themselves and he looks for as much value
as he can get for what he is paying in wages. Sounds like a fair
horse trader to me.

I think what Buffet (and the rest of us) want is someone who will
give an hour's work for an hour's wage, and figures if the company
makes money, we "both" get rich. That does go both ways, if the
company makes money, but doesn't share, or don't reward effort, then
.... "I was looking for a job when I started here."

The "unethical' may do a lot of work at the job, but it isn't for
the company. I know of a case where the guy built a database 'for the
company', then left and took it with him. Bad move.

There was a editorial in the Wall Street Journal 'last week" (Jan
25th,2010), commenting on the (Current flap with the late night TV
talk shows. The comparison was made to when Johnny Carson had the
tonight show. He had a favorite guest host who filled in while he was
gone. Once, he was going to be gone for three weeks. At the end of the
first week,the guest host announced that starting the next week, they
would have their own show, on a different network (iirc). Not nice.
But Johnny Carson simply replaced the guest host for the rest of the
gig, and forbade anything to be said about it on the show. Class act,
and a class response to a person who had taken advantage of him in
manner which might be considered unethical..
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pyotr filipivich
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