Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great
values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are
the most stable things in our lives.

— Jesse Herman Holmes

In yesterday’s blogpost, we critiqued the performance of a CNBC-selected all-star business panel. Their assigned subject matter was “Restoring Trust in Business.”

We said their answers were largely non-responsive, and mainly boiled down to two: jobs and tax cuts. Make that one, actually, because the panel’s preferred route to jobs appeared to be tax cuts.

Suppose someone asked you, “How should we go about restoring a decades-long decline in confidence in business and the markets?” How many of you think the obvious answer is “tax cuts?” That’s not what first occurred to us.

Of course, it’s easy to criticize, hard to be constructive. So here’s our attempt to answer the very serious question that CNBC posed: How can trust and confidence in business and the markets be improved?

Read the whole article at Trusted Advisor

Some people see themselves as victims of their circumstances; other people take responsibility for creating them. Some people complain about everything that’s wrong; others discuss solutions to make things right. Some people are pushed by their problems in life; other people are led by their dreams.

What kind of person will you be today?

TinyBuddha

The 10 most famous two-letter words in the alphabet: If it is to be, it is up to me!

Be too flexible and others will bend you; not flexible enough and they will break you.

K. R. Hutchings

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. NN

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