RULE 68
Have principles and stick to them
When you think about it, you’ve got to have principles. If you don’t, you end up despising yourself or in debt or in prison. You might end up like this anyway, but at least you could say, ‘But I have my principles’.
There has to be a line beyond which you will not go. You have to know where that line is drawn. No one else has to know until they ask you to cross it and then you can tell them. That line has to be a 10-mile-high solid steel wall. You can’t go beyond it, no matter what.
THERE HAS TO BE A LINE BEYOND WHICH YOU WILL NOT GO. YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THAT LINE IS DRAWN
I have a friend whose boss once asked her to falsify a formal warning letter to present at a tribunal for a member of staff ...
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