My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Al FrankenAl Franken My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Al FrankenAl Franken I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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Al FrankenAl Franken I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Abbas KiarostamiAbbas Kiarostami A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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