Despise The Free Lunch

What is offered for free is dangerous - it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligations. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way, you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.

It is often wise to pay the full price - There is no cutting corner with excellence. Be lavish with your money and keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a magnet for power.

In the realm of power, everything must be judged by its cost, and everything has a price. What is offered for free or at a bargain rates often comes with a psychological price tag - complicated feeling of obligation, compromising with quality, the insecurity those compromises bring, on and on.

The powerful learn early to protect their most valuable resources; independence and room to maneuver. By paying the full price, they keep themselves free from dangerous entanglement and worries.