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“Entrepreneurs are not at all like ordinary businessmen. An entrepreneur who is not in trouble closes no avenues, keeps a lot of balls in the air, and will neve
by brycewray 5y ago
“Entrepreneurs are not at all like ordinary businessmen. An entrepreneur who is not in trouble closes no avenues, keeps a lot of balls in the air, and will never tell you the whole truth when a half-truth will do. An entrepreneur who is in trouble will lie, cheat, and steal. He will smuggle cocaine or ship bricks. We should never measure an entrepreneur by the standards of a rock-solid businessman.” — attributed to Kenneth Rind[1]
[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=MQvGc8Ee1SsC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=MQvGc8Ee1SsC&pg=PA137&lpg=...
- mrlonglong 5y agoNetflix is running a show about deLorean and the chap who ran the whole thing. Ended up in jail for drugs smuggling.
- QuantumG 5y agoYeah, you should probably watch the rest of that documentary. He successfully defended himself as the people trying to sell him the drugs were the police - and never had any drugs. Entrapping a desperate man trying to save his company - which honestly could have been the biggest car company in the world if they'd manage to hold on a few more years (and BTTF still happened) - is really not that hard.
- mrlonglong 5y agoYeah it's on my list to watch, thanks.
- CRConrad 5y agoYou're misunderstanding the concept of entrapment.
- csours 5y agoShameless plug for a friends' podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/show/lie-cheat-steal https://www.stitcher.com/show/lie-cheat-steal
- Pokepokalypse 5y agoI don't tend to hold "rock-solid businessmen" in high regard either.
- systemBuilder 5y agoSun used to ship bricks when they couldn't get enough Spark processors working. Every customer return was repackaged as a new computer and sent to the next customer as a stalling tactic .