February 04, 2011

How About Relatively Useful, Relatively Glorius?


"Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain."


  Latin proverb

Much of my early career was spent as a Senior VP Marketing and Product Development selling car and home stereo. 

Was there glory in that?  

What if you sell ketchup, clothes, hardware, grass seed, laundry detergent, most anything you can think of that is not essential to sustain or preserve someone's life?

I suppose what is and is not "useful" depends on one's perspective.

How about what you do?

2 comments :

  1. There is a lot of baggage associated with the word "glory", both good and bad. In fact maybe more than any word I can think of, reaction to glory is very polarized.

    And if the measure of what is and isn't useful is to only be that which sustains or preserves life, can many of us say that what we do is glorious?

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  2. it so capitalstic to think glory when sellling. what is glory in that. only glory is working for peoplle

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