What We Can Learn From Cowboy Ethics
The upheavals in Wall Street call to mind a favorite western book. I’m Susan Allen and after the break, Jeff will join me with some insight on ethics. Jeff, in my office I keep a copy of James. P. Owens book, Cowboy Ethics. It’s sub title, What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West couldn’t be more relevant today could it? Susan four years ago when Owen, a thirty five year veteran of Wall Street, penned Cowboy Ethics none of conceived our country would be in the financial mess we’re in. Imagine if Wall Street or the Obama administration embraced even one of Owens ten cowboy principles; Live Each Day with Courage, Take Pride in your work, Always Finish What You Start, Be Tough, But Fair, When You Make A Promise, Keep It. Ride For the Brand, Talk Less And Say More, Remember That Some Things Aren’t For Sale, and Know Where to Draw the Line. People are fed up, even frightened of what the USA is becoming. I for one am tired of bailouts and socialist agendas forced down our throats. Susan, the last paragraph of Cowboy Ethics states that “few of us will ever be called to test our courage against perils anything like a raging blizzard or a runaway herd of cattle. But every time we make a decision, we can ask ourselves, ”Is it right? Is it fair? We can decide that our honor and our reputations are not for sale.
