Do not fraternize with persons outside the office. Do not engage in long, unnecessary conversations with secretaries. Be sure that all confidential and secret material from wastepaper baskets is properly destroyed and burned. Tell your wife as little as possible.
— Howard Hughes Contemporary

Billionaire, extreme OCD recluse

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From a six-page directive Hughes wrote to his male employees.

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Not specified, during his period of detailed instructions to staff.

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