We hire a man, not his history. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. It is not the employer who pays the wages.
Employers only handle the money.
It is the customer who pays the wages. If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.