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Budget Every Item Until Truth Surfaces, Hard Selling Against British Snobbery, Never Idle Capital Never Unused Credit
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Why did I want to do it? Because all my life I have been worried when I have remained for a long time in a routine and settled way of daily habits. I was always afraid of standing still, of stagnating. My ambition had a…
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"Why did I want to do it? Because all my life I have been worried when I have remained for a long time in a routine and settled way of daily habits. I was always afraid of standing still, of stagnating. My ambition had always kept well ahead of my accomplishments. The chance of becoming owner of a truly national newspaper in contrast to the purely local dailies which I ran in Canada—and indeed the Scotsman was a paper with an international reputation, an entirely different proposition from anything I owned—had a strong appeal."
After I Was Sixty - A Chapter of Autobiography
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Budget Every Item Until Truth SurfacesHard Selling Against British SnobberyNever Idle Capital Never Unused CreditSimplicity as Anti-Phoniness DoctrineGregariousness as Deal PipelineFigures on the Back of an EnvelopeOffer to Buy Every Newspaper in the RoomRestlessness as Anti-Stagnation EngineTrust Executives Then Watch the NumbersExperience Compounds Like InterestSubconscious as Decision ComputerCross-Fertilize Cash Flows Across Seasons