Doing
business with clean conscience is doing business with good night
sleeps. It is also doing business with gladness of your heart and soul.
Gratitude will come to you and you will become a stress free
businessman if you do business with ethics.
For most people, money makes the world go round and business bears that
money. Businessmen will perhaps do anything just to achieve the
ultimate goal of having a business, and that is to earn income. Net
profit or income financially means a surplus of sales or revenues after
deducting costs and expenses. Whether you are engage in profession,
occupation, work or trade, you are in business and you speak income.
When you earn an income you suffer taxes, the worst nightmare for every
income earners. Income tax is your punishment of doing well in
business. This sounds ridiculous but this is the reality, you pay when
you earn. Because tax is legislative, noncompliance to this would
results to crimes. This thing called income tax had already made
billions of liars around the world. Some governments imposed taxes
which are already too much to burden the flow of business. Others make
tax laws that are already beyond the ability of taxpayers. However
these facts must not result in the existence of enormous number of
dishonest people in the world.
Ethics in business rarely exists nowadays. Perhaps it is because for
most people, profit will come without the need of business ethics.
This, I don’t agree. The word ethics is derived from the Greek word
ethos, which means "character," and from the Latin word mores, which
means "customs." According to the encyclopedia ethics is the branch of
philosophy that defines what is good for the individual and for society
and establishes the nature of obligations, or duties, that people owe
themselves and one another. Maybe ethics is not needed to earn profit
if you define profit or income as money. But deeply speaking, business
is not just for money. Yes it is definitely for profit, but profit is
not just financial profit. We need profit that will not just sustain
our pocket or our stomach. Significantly, we also need profits that
will feed our hearts and soul. Considering that we are great
businessmen, we should extend our minds to this principle. We need
business ethics to earn these high valued profits. We must be concerned
to the virtue of our character and to the common good.
Your business is not just for the survival of your life on Earth but it
can also be your road to the survival of your soul. If you’re in
business and had a company, you can help your employees by providing
them enough salaries and other benefits that will make their lives
better. You can be honest and pay your exact tax for the government who
will eventually use it for your country’s development. (Assuming your
government is straight and not corrupt) But don’t mind them, be honest
even others are not. We are talking here your soul survival and not
theirs. You can also serve your customers by providing them their needs
and giving them convenience. Customer care is so important for your
customers as also important for your business to earn public trust and
loyalty. If you build infrastructures for your company you contribute
to the development of your place in terms of buildings and
infrastructures. When you got ethics in business you practice fair
business competition. Fair business competition is a challenge for
every business to improve the qualities of their products and services,
and the end benefits are to the consumers.
Doing business with clean conscience is doing business with good night
sleeps. It is also doing business with gladness of your heart and soul.
Gratitude will come to you and you will become a stress free
businessman if you do business with ethics. These and other spiritual
profits will straightly come to you and the good thing on this is you
are not taxed on this kind of profits. As an extraordinary businessman,
you do not only set your long-term goals for 10 years or for a life
time. You must also consider eternity and set goals to achieve profits
that will benefit your soul. You need profits that last forever,
profits that will give us everlasting life and happiness, and profits
that will earn us the key to heaven. These profits will benefits us in
the short run, midterm run, long run and eternal run, as God is great
from the beginning and unto the never-ending.
Do business and believe in God. Building our business in God’s place is
like building it in rocks which are in great foundations. Let us be
kind and grateful to our employees as they are our best assets. Let’s
give them bread and they will give us a ham sandwich. Let us have huge
care to our customers as they are our best revenue generators. Let’s
give them good price, high quality products and best services and they
will give us their respect and loyalty. Let us be fair to our
competitors as they are our great motivators. Let us give them fair
game and they will give us the true meaning of winning. Let us be
thankful to our Father Almighty God as He is our greatest business
partner. Let’s serve Him and He will give us joy and peace of mind.
