Random Quote of the Day

Looking at my iGoogle page, I noticed a much neglected gadget. This one gives me random quote of the day. Jean Paul Getty had once said “Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.” Looking at this, I was impressed. If there was no risk in business, it becomes very tedious. If you are always the top dog, you HAVE NOTHING TO DO. Deciding that this man must be interesting, I researched him. This guy was born a business man. He went to college in a time that women could not, and got a political science and economic degrees. He ran his own oil company, and then retired briefly to become a playboy, which did not last long. The call of business was so great that he installed coin box phones in his own home because people would use his telephone to call overseas and long distances frequently. Even when his own grandson was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom twice to tell other copycats that they had better not try with the rest of his fourteen grandchildren. Though the trauma of the incident caused his grandson to become a drug addict and die rather horribly. He died of heart failure at the age of 83.