Well, you could probably ask the same question of any good salesperson today. The answer is likely that people stick to what they want to do and what they're go

Well, you could probably ask the same question of any good salesperson today. The answer is likely that people stick to what they want to do and what they're good at. If you want to build a company, you build a company. If you want to sell, you find a product you can sell and you excel at that. I'd hazard a guess that Johnson was really great at doing what he did to create Blue Ribbon when he had the backing of an established company behind him, but starting from absolute zero might not have been his cup of tea.