Subject: Re: "The Art of The Deal"
Depends on your frame of reference.

Your next door neighbour sets fire to your house, and his house, and says that if you lend him your lawnmower he won't block some of the fire trucks. He doesn't guarantee how many, but says it will be some. Is it a big win for him if you then lend him your lawnmower? He did, admittedly, get results.


One of my best friends is a Kiwi with an amazingly successful business history (he started as a teenager with a hot dog stand in Wellington, later the first one who imported used car parts from Japan (a business often copied, but never with his success), now in his "retirement" (Ha!!!) a mentor for many inventors and creative people without business skills) and racedriver history (NZ land speed record for Diesel engines, Porsche cup champion, around 70 24h races worldwide).

He once told me this about results and the means to get them:

"In business you can only get so far while staying a decent, honest person with integrity. There is a threshold you can't transcend without throwing scrupels over board. I am not willing to do that."