Entrepreneur's Table

Today's Proverb for Work and Wealth Proverbs 14:23 - "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." In today's readings of Proverbs, one stands out to be as instructive in the matter of work and wealth. It has to do with the value of hard work and it suggests that there is always profit in hard work. It does not define that profit as always being a commission at the end of the day. in fact, the profit for today may be that step of character development that leads to the next level of skill that leads to eventual income. The harvest, the sale, the royalty, or the commission may be off in the distance, but today's hard work is contributing to that pay off. On the other hand, the fruit of mere talk is clearly defined as poverty - no money, no profit, no advance toward one's goals. Talk is good, but mere talk is fruitless. More than that, it is a thief, robbing us of precious time and draining our energy and enth...