Code of Honour

• Money without your own people won’t even protect you from a pickpocket.
• Don’t look at the name on the door. Look at whose word turns into deeds.
• An hour a capo spends on a soldier’s work is two losses at once.
• Every new man on the crew raises the price of talking.
• Power you can’t explain to people is a title.
• Leave a soldier’s letter unanswered and you’ve signed your own sentence.
• Learning a wife’s name costs nothing and keeps people for twenty years.
• Public humiliation is a debt that gets called in on your worst day.
• A rule with a “because” gets kept when nobody’s watching.
• Say what and why. How is for the one who knows how.
• An order should be clear, short and doable. And there should be few of them.
• A task with no name is nobody’s task.
• Multiply your deadlines by one and a half and don’t take it personally.
• Go to the boss with an answer, not a question.
• Our kind know our kind. So do the police.
• One small detail that doesn’t fit gives the whole thing away.
• The best advertising is being recommended behind your back.
• Yesterday’s poor relations learn fast.
• A man who names his own deadline holds to it tighter.
• Authority with no right on its side lasts until the first failure.
• Show what you’re paying for, and you’ll find out what you’ve bought.
• “We’ve always done it this way” is no argument.
• What you expect a man to be, he becomes. More often than you’d think.
• Before you decide a man is bad, ask what happened.
• Indispensable means the job isn’t finished.