There was once a CEO of a computer company who was about to IPO.
The IPO was going to make him a multi-millionaire.
On the day of the IPO, he went out for lunch with a yacht salesman.
Then, driving his Ferrari after lunch, he lost control on a bend and was killed.
MORAL: Getting rich can make you silly.
He should have bought a Smart car, it would be difficult (but not impossible) to kill yourself in one?
Unfortunately they hadn't been invented at that time, Mr C, but a CEO in a Smart car? After he'd squeezed his ego inside there'd be no room for him.
David, quite true, you suddenly realise the limitations of a Smart car when you land and pick up your rental car with your wife, you both have suitcases.....................:0(
. . . . . .and then you realise you should have a smaller wife
A warning here for Ed!
OMG, Dr Bob, Yes I do believe you're right. Ed's so susceptible to temptation.
Dennis Barnhart of Eagle Computers :0)
I had an Eagle 2 that as a young salesman took around with me to demonstrate the software of a tester that I was selling. It ran CPM and we also used Sirius PC's (does anyone know why Sirius used to stick what looked like a ladies stocking across the display?) that I think were also CPM PC's?
I used to carry it into reception, the receptionist always used to joke and ask why I was carrying a sewing machine. The display was small but hey I was a top salesman with a portable, OK within months I took on the frame of a lobster with the weight of the Bl@@dy thing!
Yes, spot on, Mr C.
"Getting rich can make you silly" ..sometimes the converse can be true?
Yes, Cheese, Morecambe & Wise, Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper show that the converse can be true also Chips & Technologies (start-up takes on IBM) which was thought silly by every VC in Silicon Valley but made Gordy Campbell a rich man
Methinks Sir Cheese was alluding to the actual kwality of our various self-important Masters of The Universe who populate big business boardrooms than the likes of Benny Hill (who was not only *consciously* silly and rich, but he got them thar Angels too - now that's a real "perk of the job"; give me that over a Square Mile bonus anyday!
Well, that's the last of my remaining concentration for this week just been reassigned from transistors...)
The Baron
Of course, of course, you're right, The Baron, I was rather adrift of the point there. I should have been thinking of Mr Fred Goodwin, Tom McKillop, Adam Applegarth, Victor Blank and the rest of those silly bankers.