One of the wonderful aspects of business in the United States is the idea of trust. The concept and the very reality that I can pick up my cell and call someone pretty much anywhere in the US and order something and have it delivered, then have an invoice sent to me. Do people sometimes get burned? Of course and they will always will. But the majority of the transactions can be done in this manner.

This reality of business transactions that we are able to enjoy in the United States is the result of our honest and hardworking American business people who have gone before us. We have built up a "capital" in the United States that allows us this freedom to trust. In other countries, the idea of being able to conduct transactions like this is often a foreign concept. This is one of the challenges of doing business globally that Americans need to realize and understand. It is the very core of why many of our relief efforts and infusions of money just flat out don't work when we give "aid" money to other nations.

Ken Eldred, in his book God is at Work, discusses the very concept of building up "spiritual captital" in nations so that a trust can be established. Not only for business, but for community growth.