The Ten Demandments
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Back in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, a London factory manager compiles a list of suggestions, ten epigrammatic bits of advice that he passed along to his employees.
Here are his “Ten Demandments”
- Don’t Lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you in the act in the end, and that is the wrong end.
- Watch your work, not the clock. A long day’s work makes a long day short; and a short day’s work makes my face long.
- Give more than I expect and I will give you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits.
- You owe so much to yourself that you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or keep out of my shops.
- Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it.
- Mind you own business, and in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind.
- Don’t do anything here which hurts your self-prespect. An employee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me.
- It is none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demand you’ll last half as long as you hoped.
- Don’t tell me what I’d like to hear but what I ought to hear. I don’t want a valet to my vanity, but one for my money.
- Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth correcting, you’re worth keeping. I don’t waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples.
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