Code of Honour

• People read the CV. They read the signature under it more carefully.
• You enter a serious house through a third man.
• Whoever vouched for you answers for you. Don’t leave him in your debt.
• Pick the place first, the pay second.
• You see more from the door than from the table. Stand by the door a while.
• They’ll ask your opinion once they know what it’s worth.
• A man who never obeyed gives orders blind.
• Respect, yes. Yes-men, no.
• Say the order back in your own words. Sheep go missing in Misilmeri in more ways than one.
• To the new boss, respect. To the old one, thanks.
• A mentor in your way is still your mentor. Go round him; don’t go to war.
• Sometimes one bag you didn’t take off the carousel earns you all the respect you need.
• Changes are announced once they’ve already happened.
• Don’t hang your fate on one man upstairs.
• Decisions get made in the car, not in the meeting room.
• Forget the org chart. Know who’s related to whom and who owes whom.
• The man who asks too many questions is the first to be suspected.
• While you’re counting other men’s yachts, someone is counting your men.
• See the danger, act today. Armour due next week won’t save you.
• A beaten man who’s ready to work—take him on. The rest—keep them in sight.
• No ally is more dangerous than the one you told your routine to with your own mouth.
• Choose your model, or your model will choose you.
• Respect the quality, not the side.
• The boys are watching you too.
• Everything secret gets read one day. Write and speak as if it’s being read already.