Do you lie?

Below are a couple of remarks I ran across (and made a note of) quite some time ago. They're still relevant--a good reminder that the myriad small decisions you and I make every day do, in fact, matter to other people. And to our future selves, for that matter:

We tend to think of a market as an inanimate force and economics as akin to alchemy, where only a few brilliant insiders know what is going on. But markets are not inanimate; they are relationships between people.

(Michael Matheson Miller)

A healthy economy cannot be built on a sick culture. More specifically, transactions that depend on trust -- meaning most of them -- cannot exist where the basis for trusting is as thoroughly eroded as it is now.

(Bill Otis)