I've been having a conversation wth a friend of mine.....and our discussion revolved around integrity. What it is, why it's important to have it and what happens when you lose it. I told him that.....people partly perceive you by the kinds of people that you have as friends and the kinds of people that you do business with. For instance, if you hang around and do business with good honest hard working people, you will be perceived as someone with a lot of integrity and you will be seen as a good honest hard working person yourself. On the other hand, if you hang around scammers and thieves and you do business with scammers and thieves, you will be perceived as....a scammer and a thief. In that instance, you will not be seen as a person with integrity. To be honest, I don't think my friend understands this concept. Or maybe he does understand this concept but just chooses to not acknowledge it for some reason.
So I just wanted to ask some of you to explain what integrity means to you. Specifically, how important is it that you be perceived as someone with integrity and how important is it that those you do business with have integrity?