487. Rules for Speech

Do not Swear or Blaspheme.
Do not Lie.
Never Cover up for another.

It saves a huge amount of time and energy if you have a rule that simply says that you never lie swear or cover up. That way, your decisions about what you will say have already been made for you.

This should not stop you from being careful, economical, if you will, with the truth. It is a powerful thing and not everyone is entitled to the whole truth. If you are ever asked a direct question, you must tell the truth but you don't have to go out of your way to get someone into trouble or give away too much information.

448. Poverty & Lies

Do not talk poverty. In truth you are wealthy and talking poverty when you are wealthy is a lie. Wherever there is a lie, there is evil. Evil always has to do with lies.

326. The Absolute Need for Secrecy

Do not trust the state. The state does not trust you, Machiavelli wrote that it is necessary for the state to deal in lies and half-truths because people are made up of lies and half-truths, even princes.

Never trust any one person 100%. Never reveal the whole truth to any one person or enough parts of the truth to many people for them to put it all together.

There is a fashion for openness and transparency in financial matters. This is perfectly fine. It is right that those who are accountable to you should be open about everything. You do not have to be bound by such quaint notions as these.

Do not reveal financial information to anyone unless it is absolutely necessary and even then make sure you swear them to secrecy. Be wise, keep your own counsel; do not tell everything even then.

Operate always on a need to know basis. Remember that people do not need to know every thing that is happening or going on.

If you give people (especially those working for the state) too much information about yourself and your affairs, it can be used in many ways against you. Your ideas can be stolen. Your customers can be stolen. The knowledge that you give others can be woven into "evidence" and used against you. The truths that you tell can be taken and twisted into a rope of lies to bind you.

When you begin to make your way in the world, lesser men will see your achievements and envy you. They will try to take your wealth away from you and injure your reputation, self esteem, and damage you physically. Do not give them any ammunition to use against you. Only give away as much information as people need to enable them to carry out your wishes.

Keep your systems secret. When you have devised a system for making money or re-investing it once it is made, keep quiet about it. You have no obligation to make things easier for your competition. NEVER disclose your key numbers, gross margins, fixed expenses, key performance indicators, turnover, number of customers etc.

Only the tax man has the legal (not moral) right to any information and you should only give that if absolutely necessary. No-one should EVER know the details of your business systems.

Never allow letters, contracts, contacts, faxes etc. fall into anyone else's hands. SHRED your waste paper.

Remember, the information that drips slowly into your enemy's hands can become dangerous power for them to wield over you.

On the other hand, always be alert for information on the oppoaition. When you are in idle moments, ring them up to find out what they are doing or go and visit them to do some recconaisance work.

When asked an impertinent question, i.e. a question asked out of nosiness, curiosity or as part of a blatant piece of interrogation, resist the temptation to tell them where to go but answer the question with another question e.g. "Why did you ask that?", "What do you mean, profit?", Who wants to know the answer to that?" etc. Don't give anything away and eventually they will get the message and give up.

When faced with this situation, note well who is asking what. Maintain files on these people and log this information in them and cross reference them with the files you keep on your own operations.

140. Just Say No !

Here follows a list of things to which you should just say "NO!"
1. Recruiting Sergeants (or Navy Pressgangs).
2. "Recreational" Drugs both the street kind and the "legal high" kind as well as the prescription kind if they haven't been prescribed by a doctor and even then only with great caution.
3. Alcohol
4. Sport sex
5. Scientology or any weird cult
6. Gurus who take lots of money
7. Suicide
8. Suicide pacts
9. Stealing
10. Vandalism
11. Murder
12. Violence
13. Any form of criminality
14. Lifts from friends who don't own cars
15. Requests to carry things through customs / immigration / airports
16. Requests to mind mysterious packages "just for a few days"
17. Requests to beat people up
18. Any kind of dare.
19. Any kind of bet.
20. Suggestions that you should lie to save anyone's skin (even your own).
21. Any suggestions/requessts/orders etc from someone you know to be either psychotic or a psychopath.
22. The expression "Psst ! Come into the ally !" (also applies to cars.)
23. While you are a child any offers of money, toys, sweets etc. from an unknown adult in return for work or doing a message.
24. Charities that spend more on administration than on their projects. Don't take their word for it - demand audited accounts.
25. Religions that promise your reward "in the next life."
26. Flat demands from others that you spend your money on them.
27. "Business Coaches"nd "marketing gurus" a who promise to increase your turnover and who charge more than they produce.


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