People are liars. Don't trust them.

We all tell little lies here and there. Either to save someones feelings or to make ourselves appear better to others.

Some folks lie with every breath for no particular reason. I know someone who lies about everything from what she had for breakfast, why she lost her job(lying), why her kids won't speak to her etc...

Someone who spends all of their energy remembering and covering lies with other lies causes themselves extreme stress and risk of a nervous breakdown.

I know lots of liars. They lie to my face constantly. I don't challenge them because it really isn't worth my time getting into a pointless argument about what they did.

What really gets to me is when someone spreads lies about me personally.

I went into business with a family member I'll call "Todd" to help them out plus I thought it would be cool to be an entrepreneur again.

I kept the books, did payroll, estimates etc...

Soon after we started becoming successful My " business partner" took the all the payroll and petty cash one Christmas and spent it on his wife.

I told "Todd" not to do it. He said "its my business so its my money" I told him the money belonged to the company and he was making a big mistake.

Sure enough, the employees didn't get paid. They got pissed and called our customers yelling and screaming. Our customers dropped us on the spot.

We lost everything. Luckily I only lost about $800 of my own capital which mainly consisted of a cell phone bill that my "partner ran up with personal calls behind my back".

There were some hard feelings and "Todd" acted like he didn't owe me for the cell phone bill. I called his sister and she made him work it off doing home repairs.

Not long afterwards I was talking to my brother in law who asked me "is it true you stole all the money from your business and screwed Todd over?"

I was livid. Not only had this guy screwed his business, tried to rip me off, now he was trying to tell the family I was a crook who stole from him.

Fucking liars. What is the point of this whole story?

Don't trust people, always have an out and never take anyone at face value without checking the story. There are some sick fuckers out there with no conscience, morals or ethics.

Idealism and optimism need to be tempered with caution and suspicion.

More often than not someone who is a smooth talker with big ideas will try to take you for every cent they can. Believe me I know.

Don't ever blindly invest without written contracts, collateral and witnesses.

You will save yourself a lot of grief if you recognize that everyone is a liar to some extent.

Especially if money is involved.