We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.