Business always will be immoral as long as it is an end in itself. The
product is greater than the machine, the making of character greater
than the mechanism by which we make a living. The serious danger comes
when a man begins to lay his soul on the counter, when he reverses the
course in this school of character and makes the end serve the means,
when he sacrifices honour, truth, and the soul that business may
succeed.

Only failure lies that way. No business ever became permanently great
by making its people small. Success here is to be measured by the
soul. No matter what a man may be doing he must keep himself above his
task. The work must serve the worker.

The question is whether we are serving business or it is serving us.
If a man lives for his wage he will sacrifice everything to get it, but
if he works that he may find life, then he will ever refuse to lose the
things of which life is made in the pursuit of success. He knows he
does not have to make money, but he does have to make manhood. That is
the end both of religion and of business.



THE MORAL END OF MONEY-MAKING

There are those who talk of money and business as though these were
necessarily and intrinsically evil. It is often supposed that capacity
for goodness is established by incapacity for business, while those to
whom poverty seems inevitable find consolation in regarding it as
evidence of piety.