He paid his closest staff handsomely. ‘My people’, he remarked once, ‘have a standard of living with me which I consider the correct one. Working at my side they should have an adequate income. Nobody should have to succumb to temptation, allow themselves to be corrupted or engage in unfair practices for need of money. If they do, I reserve the right in such cases to punish harshly and pitilessly.’ And he did so.
