A Quote by Michael Josephson

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs. — © Michael Josephson
Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

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Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.
I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.
Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
I run advertisements and sell T-shirts to cover overhead costs and pay the few people who help me out behind the scenes. Anything left over is spent on production costs, animation costs, etc.
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.
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