Stick To Your Principles

The Design Startup Show

Hey design starters. Today. I have a quick lesson on principles. So over the years when you know, building my business, I realized that there is no way you can run a business and run your life. If you are not making profits, it sounds obvious isn't it? And it's a good thing to know that yet it's not so good sometimes because this means that the more you have the better.

And that's where things become dangerous. And I say dangerous is because when it comes to making money, there are many, many ways to make money. And when there are many ways to make money, it's easy to be, tend to, to go through certain actions and certain ways to get money, even if they are not morally right or ethically.

Right. Even if you know, it's not right. So this is something where principles come in. So the thing is a lot of things that you do, uh, mostly behind closed doors. What I mean is nobody needs to know how you are doing things right. And, and nobody will know exactly how you. Are working and how you work and how you and the money.

So this is the little hidden area where as a business owner, it's important to stick to your principles is to set these principles as things like being, being a business owner with the integrity to make money, honestly, I wanted to use this lesson because I want to give you this lesson is because of, um, how it, how, how it's so easy to make so much money by doing the wrong things and down the road.

It's not whether people will catch, you all will find out. It's not so much of that, but it's whether you can live with it. Right. So doing the right thing is the best way and is the right way simply to keep yourself out of all the law and legal and regulatory stuff. Right. These will be so difficult to amend down the road, if you are going to do the wrong thing just for money.

Right? So. If you want opportunity, if you want to make more money, then there are ways there are many ways. And there are also many ways that are, that are, I think, Oh, there are so many ways that are within your integrity, that, that when you do people will trust you. If there are ways to earn money and they are not ethical ways and you give them up and you say no to them, people will respect you.

You will feel good and you will lead the same life and a better life than if you were to go down the wrong road. Right. So set up your principles and values. To tell yourself, you can just list them down. You can even put them on your website, even if you don't want it's fine. But by you need to have this list where you can refer to in times where you find that you are strapped for cash or, or, you know, there are always times rains down.

We feel, at times we have less sales at times than what are you going to do? Are you going to scrap for money? Are you going to spam people so that you can earn more, you know, All these things will affect, and it's not so much of reputation. It is reputation as well, but it's not so much of that, but it's how you're going to carry on with your business down the road with a red card that, that keeps you clean, makes you feel good and live with no regrets.