A Pound Of Butter

A Pound Of Butter

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker. One day the baker decided
to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound and he found that he was not. This
angered him and he took the farmer to court. The judge asked the farmer if he was using
any measure. The farmer replied, amour Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper
measure, but I do have a scale." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?"
The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I
have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the
bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be
blamed, it is the baker." What is the moral of the story? We get back in life what we give
to others.
Whenever you take an action, ask yourself this question: Am I giving fair value for the
wages or money I hope to make?
Honesty and dishonesty become a habit. Some people practice dishonesty and can lie
with a straight face. Others lie so much that they don't even know what the truth is
anymore. But who are they deceiving? Themselves--- more than anyone else.
Honesty can be put across gently. Some people take pride in being brutally honest. It
seems they are getting a bigger kick out of the brutality than the honesty. Choice of
words and tact are important.