Bill Jones (aka Fatty) was known for his training programs and love of sharing his thoughts on business and life with others. Here are the "Jones' Laws" that he wrote. I am sure many former employees remember them.

Have a problem? “Study” Jones’ Laws for the answer!!! If you live by the laws, success will seek you!!!

 

1.  Use the other person’s brains.

2.  A successful man is never swamped with work.

3.  Put responsibility on the other person.

4.  Specialization is the key to efficiency.

5.  Blame yourself when things aren’t right.

6.  Functional organization is a necessity.

7.  Responsibility without authority is nothing.

8.  Communication is a must.

9.  Build around function, not people.

10. Proper records and proper controls are a must.

11. A person must conform to a business, not the reverse.

12. Scheduled meetings are a must.

13. Management, not products, compete.

14. Quality personnel, not chandeliers.

15. Measure production for motivation.

16. Education without management is nothing.

17. Neatness saves time.

18. Seek criticism readily.

19. Attitude begets attitude.

20. Everybody needs somebody to advise.

21. Work will find a way to fill time allotted.

22. Management is not inherited.

23. Failures seek failures for advice.

24. It’s not what you can do for you, its what you can do for others.

25. Be willing to walk the extra mile before you put your hand out.

26. If you live by the above laws, success will seek you.

27. Don’t spend time… invest it.

28. You can’t run a business crisis to crisis.

29. Find out where the people are moving and get there first.

30. Loss prevention is always preceded by losses.

31. First-rate men will surround themselves with equals or better.

Second-rate men will surround themselves with third-rate men.

Third-rate men surround themselves with fifth-rate men.

32. Crisis involves two elements – time and threat. Temperature of a crisis depends on the time element more than the magnitude of the threat.

33. Don’t ask your barber if you need a haircut.

34. Length of a meeting rises with the square of people present.

35. In a crisis that forces a choice of action, most people make the worst possible choice.

36. The more complex, the sooner dead.

37. Expenditures rise to meet income.

38. Any raise in salary is never adequate.

39. A tight budget breeds creativity. Excess funds create wasteful pursuits.

40. There has never been a genius committee.

41. There can only be one boss.

42. Eliminate managerial ego.

43. Avoid the human instinct “to the extent that I diminish you, then I relatively advance”.

44. Components that must not and cannot be assembled improperly will be.

45. Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable terms: fulong, decade, fortnight.

46. A dropped tool will always drop to where it will do the most damage (Jones’ butterside down law).

47. If you can keep calm and collected while everyone else is panic stricken, you just don’t know what is going on.

48. Good control is certain, positive, predictable. To achieve order out of confusion is to achieve control.

49. No matter how great or complex the confusing situation, it is composed of data and factors. Solve it a piece at a time.

50. The good parking places are always on the other side of the street.

51. Creativity varies inversely to the number of cooks involved in the broth.

52. An unstable manager requires a new manager.

53. A person’s loyalty is a function of how much he feels appreciated.

54. The effectiveness of a program depends on the amount of participation delegated.

55. A job can only be a successful as the means supplied to measure it.

56. If you gear your business to survival, that’s the best it will do, or less.

57. Never threaten.