One more point, which I make at the beginning of my other reply. It's how you do it. I am somewhat proud of my business record, as I have told you.
Yes, I have had to let people go in bad times, but they each had a good severance package plus head hunter help to get them back working again, and I have closed the loop with most of them.
One more point, which I make at the beginning of my other reply. It's how you do it. I am somewhat proud of my business record, as I have told you.
Yes, I have had to let people go in bad times, but they each had a good severance package plus head hunter help to get them back working again, and I have closed the loop with most of them.
I have never stiffed a supplier or contractor, and always paid a fair price.
I never got any money once I entered Undergrad School, throughout my education from my parents or anyone else except scholarships, and wages earned while at school. Except: one years worth of half my rent as a wedding present (I got married real early). A very small inheritance from my Dad's estate when he died, of which I gave 1/2 to the person my brother and I hired to give him daily care while he rotted away in a good Alzheimers facility. There wasn't a whole lot left, when he died.
I often agreed to not get paid for my work and that of my team and Associates until the results were counted by my client's Accountant. Such projects often took years to complete, and my partners and I financed those projects. Sometimes the client agreed to pay part of my operating costs, mostly not. These projects were usually also risky for my clients, you see they had usually tried to make the necessary changes to their businesses themselves, but were not able to do so. Usually because some ass-hole whom they trusted was stabbing them in the back...politics in business, I tell you, disgusting. So, they were at risk too. But we always earned our money and the clients always paid willingly. I can't say "happily, Dennis, because they knew they paid more than if they had just given me a normal contract. Every one of them paid me but ENRON swine that they were/are.
We even had a case in Spain where we were, by court order, not allowed to take a success based fee. The court determined (for the shareholders) that we had to be paid our normal fees, get this, because our track record of success was so good, that the court felt the CEO was overpaying us, and thereby stiffing his shareholders. Bwahahahahahaha, can you get any better branding than that?
So, again...it's not how much money you make, in my book at least. It is also how you do it. And Trump does not even come close to qualifying in my "club, or league". And, you should be blinded by his money. Money is nothing, it's reputation that counts. Arthur Anderson should know, their handling of ENRONS books was a travesty. And you know the rest. Intensely dislike those guys, I do.
One more point, which I make at the beginning of my other reply. It's how you do it. I am somewhat proud of my business record, as I have told you.
Yes, I have had to let people go in bad times, but they each had a good severance package plus head hunter help to get them back working again, and I have closed the loop with most of them.
I have never stiffed a supplier or contractor, and always paid a fair price.
I never got any money once I entered Undergrad School, throughout my education from my parents or anyone else except scholarships, and wages earned while at school. Except: one years worth of half my rent as a wedding present (I got married real early). A very small inheritance from my Dad's estate when he died, of which I gave 1/2 to the person my brother and I hired to give him daily care while he rotted away in a good Alzheimers facility. There wasn't a whole lot left, when he died.
I often agreed to not get paid for my work and that of my team and Associates until the results were counted by my client's Accountant. Such projects often took years to complete, and my partners and I financed those projects. Sometimes the client agreed to pay part of my operating costs, mostly not. These projects were usually also risky for my clients, you see they had usually tried to make the necessary changes to their businesses themselves, but were not able to do so. Usually because some ass-hole whom they trusted was stabbing them in the back...politics in business, I tell you, disgusting. So, they were at risk too. But we always earned our money and the clients always paid willingly. I can't say "happily, Dennis, because they knew they paid more than if they had just given me a normal contract. Every one of them paid me but ENRON swine that they were/are.
We even had a case in Spain where we were, by court order, not allowed to take a success based fee. The court determined (for the shareholders) that we had to be paid our normal fees, get this, because our track record of success was so good, that the court felt the CEO was overpaying us, and thereby stiffing his shareholders. Bwahahahahahaha, can you get any better branding than that?
So, again...it's not how much money you make, in my book at least. It is also how you do it. And Trump does not even come close to qualifying in my "club, or league". And, you should be blinded by his money. Money is nothing, it's reputation that counts. Arthur Anderson should know, their handling of ENRONS books was a travesty. And you know the rest. Intensely dislike those guys, I do.