It's a bit deceptive though, because there are certain kinds of business people who are not really happy unless they can tell you how they are able to 'see' all the problems, all the negatives, all the downside, and also then complain bitterly about 'how hard their life is.'
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| D.K. Ludwig - billionaire builder of supertankers |
There was this billionaire back in the Eighties that I recall - you'll remember him: D. K. Ludwig. He specialized in constantly looking dour and miserable and serious and as though carrying the world on his shoulders. On the surface, many of his ventures never were successful in terms of the original stated aims. A strange guy; if you or I had so many failures it would be a wonder we could afford a loaf of bread much less be billionaires. Still, it's what's below the surface with sorts of people, isn't it... I'm in enough trouble as it is so I should best shut up about Ludwig.
But what about the people who genuinely feel some kind of corporate 'depressive' sense?
I've noticed it would be impossible for them to open their minds to all the other possibilities that exist around them, and which would be positive, beneficial, and uplifting.
From what I've seen of their behaviour, I think they have a hide-bound self-view that dictates very narrowly what kinds of things they must like or what they must aspire to have or to become.
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| Courvoisier - 'Toast of Paris' event/function/product launch |
Of course they worry about insufficient cash, that's only natural.
However one thing - it seems to me - they fail to notice, is how everything they think they want to spend the cash on comes out of what they think they already know about life, and there is never any provision made for things they do not know, or do not know of, yet.
The world is full of as yet undiscovered treasures. And that is the secret of Aladdin's Cave.
Parov Stelar - 'Booty Swing.'
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