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Jim Cramer, Stock Market Guru on MSNBC weeknights, tells in his book "Confession of a Street Addict," of how he once flew to Seattle to make a Deal with a Microsoft Big Wig and on short notice left from his home base in NYC while nursing a severe sinus/ear infection. Sick or not, Jimmy was on for the deal!
Jim goes on to tell that soon after leaving NYC he experienced even more severe pain that what he had been suffering and was subjected to a loud noise in his head when his eardrum burst. Awe shucks, that darned air pressure change!
He also tells how the trip was excruciating painful yet unforgettable relative to two points. One that he can no longer hear from one ear and second he made the deal and netted a good profit. Jimmy has no complaints.
Later in the book he tells about his wife's prowess in landing a good lease on some well located Manhattan office space and scoring well financially when filling it with used furniture. Oh yes, it seems the office space had some kind of Asbestos issue and that helped her cut such a good price. No, they didn't need to work there, just the employees.
Jim's book pretty well confirms my ideas as to what are the values and reasons of right and wrong that now infect the people of financial interest in the US today.
It also helps me understand why someone would even consider allowing our Sea Ports to be managed by a foreign company from a land where the people place a commitment to their religion above all else. Like Jimmy says, a sales commission is a sales commission.
Why don't we just let the Mexicans run our Ports. They are already here and their goals and commitments seldom extend beyond a drunken knife fight on Saturday evening and shooting a cousin over a Meth sale gone bad.
Jim goes on to tell that soon after leaving NYC he experienced even more severe pain that what he had been suffering and was subjected to a loud noise in his head when his eardrum burst. Awe shucks, that darned air pressure change!
He also tells how the trip was excruciating painful yet unforgettable relative to two points. One that he can no longer hear from one ear and second he made the deal and netted a good profit. Jimmy has no complaints.
Later in the book he tells about his wife's prowess in landing a good lease on some well located Manhattan office space and scoring well financially when filling it with used furniture. Oh yes, it seems the office space had some kind of Asbestos issue and that helped her cut such a good price. No, they didn't need to work there, just the employees.
Jim's book pretty well confirms my ideas as to what are the values and reasons of right and wrong that now infect the people of financial interest in the US today.
It also helps me understand why someone would even consider allowing our Sea Ports to be managed by a foreign company from a land where the people place a commitment to their religion above all else. Like Jimmy says, a sales commission is a sales commission.
Why don't we just let the Mexicans run our Ports. They are already here and their goals and commitments seldom extend beyond a drunken knife fight on Saturday evening and shooting a cousin over a Meth sale gone bad.
posted by Localfella at 11:22 AM
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The campaign has been intense!
These days when you hear DUBAI, most think, what a cool, hip place that must be, to go through the trouble and massive expense to build a Ski Resort in the middle of the desert. Ski Dubai. It is amazing.
Of course that's what they would want you to think. Hey these are just a bunch of good ole regular guys (and gals) that clearly like to have fun, and have the money to do it on a grand scale. Ya gotta love 'em... and trust 'em - right?
Let's not kid ourselves. Truth be told, these guys would like to see Israel and us dead.
The Bush administration has got to have a screw loose to agree to let Dubai Port World buy 6 American ports. This places the security (not to mention profits) of those 6 American ports directly in the hands of a not so friendly foreign government. You control our ports, you control our economy!
Sometime I feel like this country is going to hell faster than we can fix it. Worse yet, there are those that are counting on it.
It is sad that intelligence is limited and stupidity know no bounds!
Allen,
As a fellow businessman, I am assuming from your commercial property post that you are also in business for yourself, I am also very concerned about business ethics today. Yes greed is good, but as long as no one else is hurt. My family, my country, and God all come first. My business supports me but never at the expense of the first three. We need more positive business role models. Jim Cramer is fun to listen to on radio and midly irritating to watch on TV. But his kind of thinking gives business and those in Small Business a bad name. Profit is not a dirty word, unless you gained it by dishonarable means.
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