What Money Can’t Buy

Two business competitors argued at length about certain shady business practices. Finally, one said to the other, “Let’s be clear about one thing. There are lots of ways to make money but there is only one honest way.” “What way is that?” the second man asked. “Just as I suspected, you don’t know,” the first man replied.

A company treasurer had called a meeting of the sales staff because she detected a pattern of fraud in their expense reports. “I’ll begin with our East Coast representative,” she said. “It seems clear that you’ve been overcharging the company for your meals. Tell me, how did you manage to spend sixty-four dollars a day for food in New York City?” To which the East Coast representative replied, “Easy! I skipped breakfast!”

Voltaire said of his own generation, “When it comes to a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” Yet truer words were never spoken about our generation, in which almost anything goes…