Code of Honour

• Charge for the work, not for the pain.
• When you notice you’ve stopped asking the price, ask it out loud.
• The man who finds your stolen car so easily may know who took it.
• When business stalls, don’t repaint the sign. Stand where people turn round.
• Some ladders lead down to the cellar.
• Check the batch, not the sample.
• The most confident face often belongs to the man holding the glass.
• A name grows where you aren’t.
• Never borrow a name nobody will come to back up.
• The first tin should be easy to say no to.
• Don’t trust what they say after the tasting; look where they put your tin.
• An honest price is one you can break down out loud.
• Put the thing on the counter and look at it as if it were someone else’s.
• A picture with no road is a letter from a prison cell.
• Give a man back his own words, and he’ll hear that he’s been understood.
• On the first day, ask two things: what it will cost later, and how people leave.
• Carry bad news yourself, and carry it first.
• Strip the adjectives out of a sentence and see what’s left.
• The news that pleases you deserves twice the checking.
• Walking away from a deal is easy, walking away from yourself is hard. That’s what they count on.
• Did he change his faith, or only his side?
• Submission called a virtue lasts for centuries.