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To consider any vocation worthy
and as affording me distinct opportunity to serve society.
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To improve myself, increase my
efficiency and enlarge my service, and by doing so attest my
faith in the fundamental principle that he/she profits most who
serves the best.
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To realize that I am a business
man and ambitious to succeed; But that I am first an ethical man
and wish no success that is not founded on the highest justice
and morality.
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To hold that the exchange of my
goods, my service and my ideas for profit is legitimate and
ethical, provided that all parties in the exchange are benefited
thereby.
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To use my best endeavors to
elevate the standards of the vocation in which I am engaged, and
so to conduct my affairs that others in my vocation may find it
wise, profitable and conducive to happiness to emulate my
example.
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To conduct my business in such a
manner that I may give a perfect service equal to or even better
than my competitor, and when in doubt to give added service
beyond the strict measure of debt or obligation.
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To understand that one of the
greatest assets of a professional or of a business man is his
friends and that any advantage gained by reason of friendship is
eminently ethical and proper.
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To hold that true friends demand
nothing of one another and that any abuse of the confidence of
friendship for profit is foreign to the spirit and in violation
of this Code of Ethics.
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To consider no personal success
legitimate or ethical which is secured by taking unfair
advantage of certain opportunities in the social order that are
absolutely denied others, nor will I take advantage of
opportunities to achieve material success that others will not
take because of the questionable morality involved.
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To be not more obligated to a
friend than I am to every other man in human society; because
the genius of ethics is not in its competition, but in its
cooperation; for provincialism can never have a place in my
life, and I assert that Human Rights are not confined to one
race, but are as deep and as broad as the race itself; and for
these high purposes do I strive to fulfill.
