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Adding Value or Money: Which is more important?

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Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the world by every business transaction. - Watter Wallace All monies are values but not all values are monies. To proof this fact, let’s consider this... Do you know that at the back of a British 10 pound note is written? "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the SUM of 10 pounds" I quickly checked the synonym of the word " sum " and there it was " value ", if I'll have to paraphrase it will be; "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the VALUE of 10 pounds" There you have it! What do you think? A misconstrue understanding of these two keywords - Value and Money, has affected some individuals such that they fail woefully under the test of conflict of interests. A wise man said to add value to anybody or anything find at least a need and try to meet this need with all Excellency . I was of the school of thought tha