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...write that integrity is widely misunderstood. What don't people get? I don't think they understand that if you act with integrity you actually can create wealth. We tend to think in a conventional way of integrity as - if you look it up in the dictionary - honor, honesty, moral rectitude. We think of it as a personal issue, a private morality, entirely up to you. But this way of thinking about integrity, the economic view, is a collective view. It's all about us. It underpins everything we do in the economy. [For] any transaction [to] succeed - whether...
...suggest that we wrongly believe that doing the right thing will prevent us from getting ahead. Where do you think that idea comes from? I think it comes from a short-term mentality. We've moved away from the long-term mentality of creating wealth to a slightly more short-term need for making money. There can be often a conflict between what I need to make money today and acting with integrity. Not really thinking, 'Gee, do I want to be here in 10, 20, 30 years' time?' can lead people to compromise on their integrity in pursuit...
...kept calm and think I played a good match overall,” Cao said. “I need to keep being aggressive even if I’m making errors...
...Graham's attempt to expand the negotiations, the discussions are further complicated by the fact that Hill Democrats don't have a good fix on votes and don't believe the White House does either. "I don't think they've done the legwork to determine if they have the votes," says a senior Democratic aide...
...Democrats worry that by negotiating with Graham, the Administration is conceding defeat at the start. "It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," says a senior Senate Democratic aide, "because if you let it be known that you might cut a deal because you think you don't have the votes, then you won't have the votes...