CY SIMMON'S 10 RULES

Rule 1. Don't lie—it wastes my time and yours. I'm sure to catch you in the end and that's the wrong end.

Rule 2. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short and a day's short work makes my face long.

Rule 3. Give me more than I expect and I'll pay you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits.

Rule 4. You owe so much to yourself that you can't afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debts or keep out of my shops.

Rule 5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, can't see temptation when they meet it.

Rule 6. Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind.

Rule 7. Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The employe who is willing to steal for me is capable of stealing from me.

Rule 8. It's none of my business what you do at night. But, if dissipation affects what you do next day and you do half as much as I demand, you'll last half as long as you hoped.

Rule 9. 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 I need lots of them for my dollars.

Source: The Handy Cyclopedia of Business, by Harrie Goldman, 1911.