TO BE TRULY FREE—I MUST EARN A RESPONSIBLE REPUTATION

To accept the unearned is to accept a poison into my value system. To seek the unearned is to contract a mental cancer. I will never seek the unearned. I will earn my own way. I realize that any values given me by others represent hours of their life and thus are a part of them. I will accept the trust of money—understanding I have been trusted with part of another's life.