honesty

[Truthmatters]

Without it a person has nothing

 

[California Girl]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWu0N0qPeME]Billy Joel "Honesty" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sherry]

Even assholes can be honest about their assholishness. I'm a fan of people who possess a high degree of integrity.

 

[Ringel05]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UT9Y6coFT8]I'm dishonest - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Dr.House]

Without it a person has nothing

You have nothing, then....

 

[Peach]

Too much can be a bad thing; if your friend asks if her baby is beautiful, the ONLY acceptable answer is YES, no matter what your opinion may be.

 

[HUGGY]

Without it a person has nothing

Bullshit! Do you really think Bill Gates and Paul Allen were "honest" with the programers they bought the first precursors to their windows OP from and about what they thought it was worth and what they intended to do with it as they were negotiating with IBM?

From Gates WIKI:

"BASIC
MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system

After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.[34] In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS,[35] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque."

"IBM partnership

IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980 regarding its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC.[38] The computer company first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system, Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI), makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.[39] IBM's discussions with Digital Research went poorly, and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned the licensing difficulties during a subsequent meeting with Gates and told him to get an acceptable operating system. A few weeks later Gates proposed using 86-DOS (QDOS), an operating system similar to CP/M that Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP) had made for hardware similar to the PC. Microsoft made a deal with SCP to become the exclusive licensing agent, and later the full owner, of 86-DOS. After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000.[40]

Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM's system.[40] They did, and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry.[41] Despite IBM's name on the operating system the press quickly identified Microsoft as being very influential on the new computer, with PC Magazine asking if Gates were "The Man Behind The Machine?"[38] He oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington state and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board."

Very few of the richest "self made people" told the truth on their way up the ladder.