Views: 3 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2021-12-29 Origin: Site
In a market economy society, honesty is sometimes tortured by interests. The author participated in the Basel Expo in Switzerland. On the opening day, an audience saw a stainless steel duckbill pot on the booth. He wanted to pay for it. He met and said hello, saying that there is still a business to discuss about this product. It is not yet possible to sell this only sample to the audience. This audience is a German living in Switzerland and his residence is not far from the exhibition hall. He said that he likes this duckbill very much and he agreed to come back when the exhibition is over.
The dealer came to the exhibition the next day and offered to show the duckbill pot to the distributor to get more orders. Although he also remembered his promise to the audience beforehand, he still considered the possibility of receiving a large order. The samples were given to the dealer. When the exhibition closed, the audience came to pick up the goods by appointment, but the duckbill was no longer there. Although the author said a lot of sorry, the audience was very disappointed and said: "We Germans insist that we do what we say. Maybe someone I thought it would be very old-fashioned, but young people, if you insist on doing business as a career, it is very important to keep your promises."
In the future foreign trade career, the author has always kept this teaching in mind, and put credibility more important than benefits, because he knows that in the minds of businessmen, a person who promises at will but has no intention of fulfilling it, a person who fancy benefits but abandons integrity, is Untrustworthy and cooperate with. Overdrafting honesty in the market may be a temporary advantage. However, only by earning the trust of customers with sincerity, will the maximum benefit extend infinitely on the time scale and achieve both justice and profit.
