Is A Handshake Still Enough

My Sunday school class was discussing truth telling in class the other day. When we spoke of speaking the truth in business, my wife spoke of her father, who is still working in his 70's. It used to be that you could conduct business with someone and shake hands on a deal. That is not the way most people do business today. But my father-in-law still does. Sometimes he is not even there to shake hands with his customers. His office is located right off our back door. His customers come to our back door, get the key to his office, take the products they need, lock the door and go on. They let him know what they took. He sends the customer an invoice and everybody is happy. You cannot conduct business that way if you do not have strong relationships. Building those takes many years of trust. The opposite of trust is suspicion. That is a place you do not want to be. You don't want to be the party that breaks an agreement. You can still do business today without contracts and without attorneys. It is rare, but people do it every week. People who have strong relationships built on trust. Today's Winning Thought: "Regard your personal integrity as one of your most important assets." -- William H. Swanson

Comments

[Randy Just]

Interesting how things have changed. I love to hear of things that are still like this that haven't changed with certain people. It just makes you feel good that there are still a few people like your father-in-law around.

[Jeannine]

That was how we got our house here in El Dorado 16 years ago--no contract with the buyer--just a hand shake and looked him in the eye!

Wish the old days of being able to trust those around you still existed!