APAD: Never Mix Business With Pleasure

 

Meaning:

Keep your work separate from your private life; don’t do business with friends.

 

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This flies in the face of the Chinese wisdom I inherited: "Plenty of peeps make

your journey a breeze." From what I heard, business was routinely done among

chums while having pleasure, be it a sumptuous meal, a lavish present, or

something more exotic.

 

Aspiring to Junzi, we shunned topics of money or deals and carried things out

with a subtle sublime beauty unappreciated by blood-chugging raw-meat-chomping

barbarians.

 

At the highest level, some of the country's leaders set great examples. Comrades

Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao, e.g., used to be Chairman Mao's bosom friends, until one

day they were not, of course. Still, we are a nation of 5000 years of proud

history. We despise wealth and power and relish mixing business with pleasure!

 

所有跟帖： 

• Comrades Liu Shaoqi, Lin Biao。。。党性太强，就木有人性了。。。 -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/24/2023 postreply 11:00:26

• The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/24/2023 postreply 14:07:57

• Keep business separate from our private life. 保持公私分明 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/24/2023 postreply 17:36:06

• Easier said than done :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 09:26:59

• many stories: Succeed for friends, bankruptcy for friends:)) -卫宁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/24/2023 postreply 19:44:03

• 成也萧何，败也萧何 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 06:24:01

• What nourishes me destroys me. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 09:27:33

• Sometimes, my business is my pleasure. -waterfowl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 01:59:07

• You are lucky. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/25/2023 postreply 09:27:49