On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:56 PM, David E Jones wrote:
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.
Whoops, I meant the last one, not the second one.
-David
