Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1917 — “TEN DEMANDMENTS” OF BUSINESS [ARTICLE]

“TEN DEMANDMENTS” OF BUSINESS

Up in Canada there is a successful business concern that expects, as most successful concerns do, that every employee shall do his full duty. To assist him in the task that concern places conspicuously before him these “Ten Demandments:” 1. Don’t lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you in the end, and that is the wrong end. v 2. Watch your work, not the clpekf A long day’s work makes a long day short; and a short day’s work makes my face long. 3. Give me 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. . 4. You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else.

Keep out of debt or keep out of my shop. 5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. 6. Mind your own business, and in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind. 7. Don’t do anything here which hurts your self-respect. An employee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me. 8. 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. 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 one for my dollars. L | 10. Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth while correcting you’re worth while keeping. I don’t waste time cut--ting specks out of rotten apples.