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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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I then asked him if they would consider selling their business to me. This was what I said to everybody, but, of course, the Daily Telegraph would have suited me very well. I was surprised when he appeared to flush with…
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"I then asked him if they would consider selling their business to me. This was what I said to everybody, but, of course, the Daily Telegraph would have suited me very well. I was surprised when he appeared to flush with annoyance and cut the interview short. So no doubt I was partly to blame for what followed. As I have said the suggestion of buying a family-owned newspaper is often received as an insult and no doubt mortally offended the Berrys. I was quite brash in my approach and there was some excuse for him resenting what I did."
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