"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." — George Bernard Shaw
From New York Times:
Peter maintains that telling lies is the No. 1
reason entrepreneurs fail. Not because telling lies makes you a bad
person but because the act of lying plucks you from the present,
preventing you from facing what is really going on in your world. Every
time you overreport a metric, underreport a cost, are less than honest
with a client or a member of your team, you create a false reality and
you start living in it.
You know the right path to take and choose
another, and in so doing you lose control of the situation. Now, rather
than tackling the problem head on, you have to manage the fallout from
the lie. I know people who seem to have spent their entire careers
inflating the truth and then fighting to meet the expectations they have
set.
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