Originally Posted By: Joe Wood
Rockdoc has it exactly right. In the 20 years before retirement I owned a futures commodity business, specializing in agricultural products. I always made it a point to give non customers as much time as possible knowing that eventually they would either become a client or refer others to my firm. I treated traders who got their information from me but had their accounts at other firms exactly the same and eventually many did transfer their business to me, which I knew they would eventually. There is no substitute in business and life to treat the least as the first.


Now that's just way too much common sense and decency for some on here to grasp....