On Thu, 29 May 2003, Jonathan Andrew Goff wrote:
> Most rich guys don't get rich through being million
> dollar philantropists... Development costs need to be held within
> reason or it will take too long to make returns for
> it to be worth their efforts.
Neville Shute, in "Slide Rule", said that the person to look for as an
investor in something a bit risky is the guy who got rich *unexpectedly*,
e.g. a farmer who sold land to developers. Most of his money will go into
something safe, but he's often willing to risk a modest slice of it on a
project that has socially redeeming value and might eventually make ROI.
He's typically much less fussy about the details than somebody who made
his money via twenty years of relentless toil.
But such people seldom have hundreds of millions in their pockets.
> Rand wrote:
No, Randall wrote that. Rand is somebody else. :-)
Henry Spencer
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