On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
I remember walking in the streets of a beachside town in Thailand a
few years ago and a wise man said to me something along the lines
of it always being better to let someone else do something, and
help them as needed, than to do it all yourself. I'll admit that
hasn't always worked out for me, but I do still think it's good
advice.
"If you give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day. If you teach
a man to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime."
WARNING: what follows is a tongue-in-cheek representation of nearly
universal business practices that I personally don't agree with (often
to my detriment!):
"If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer. If you sell a man
too many fish, you may lose a customer. If you can get the man to eat
more fish, you have a better customer. If you make it illegal for that
man to fish, you have a customer for life."
Fortunately the second one doesn't happen much in our democratic
societies around the world. Oh wait... sorry... forgot to turn off
tongue-in-cheek mode.
-David
