Sign your name to what you write. It is a primary step in courage. It is “cards upon the table,” a first declaration of good faith with the man with whom you treat. And to him it is an earnest that he is dealing with a man, a real man, who not only makes a statement but puts the force and strength of his personality behind it.

Quoted from the Wells Fargo Messenger, sometime in the early 1900s.  Still true.