"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Over the years, several people I caught red-handed trying to pull some
bogus nonsense looked me squarely in the eye and declared, "There's
nothing wrong with lying to a (car salesman, yacht broker, etc)."

Wonderful standard.

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Not trying to toot my horn, but rather just trying to make a point:

I ran a company for many years, involving hundreds of contracts worth
unknown millions of dollars.
When we were going through due diligence for the sale of the company, the
buyer's lawyers were amazed that I had never been involved in a lawsuit.
They said they had never come across a company that had done that level of
business involving many large companies, particularly in high ticket, high
technology contracts that didn't occasionally run into legal issues and
problems. They asked me how I managed to accomplish this feat.

My answer to them was simple. "Do what you say you will do".

Eisboch