Are you OK man?
He's OK
He is voicing his opinion which we should respect.
In fact we should all go and pull a book out of the library called:-
Everyone a Witness.
Then maybe rummage around & find some newspapers called the London Illustrated News of the early to mid 19th century. When Britain was at the height point of its industrial power with Germany hot on it heels. The America's were lagging in the rankings in them days lads.
These are vivid accounts of letters to newspaper editors etc etc , of people of bygone tymes in the UK and the USA.
Letters of concern and protestation of progress.
To inventions like a Brit (well a Scot really) who first came up with a metalled roads and boosted the mail coach travel times from London to Gloucester from weeks to 5 days! The Americans copied that technique like crazy men all down the east coast.
Take the railway and construction of the line from Rainhill to Manchester.
That was furiously debated in parliament with a lot of naysayers. Stevinson and his backers saw otherwise!
It was built and Britain with Brunel set the world on fire with railways & communication. The Americans copied that too but with such furious expansion that would have spun Brit heads at the time.
Its called efficiency in transportation and an early insight into logistics which of course the USA really invented by their own visions of progress. I am thinking of the Berlin airlift as an example and the American method of landing & laking off of planes at Tempelhof.
Most said it couldn't be done but it was achieved with utmost efficiency.
I will close with a question posed to me by a Brit banker working for an American bank. I was on the earol for $2,000, 000 with $650,000 deposit from reserves
Mr Williams,
What is the first and most important mantra in running a business?
I answered it immediately without question and it was the loan cincher!
I remembered it from a Harvard business major in college (in Cheltenham)
Its valid today as it was in the early 1970's
Can any of you answer that simple and logical answer because it the driver of this next level of progress?
Think about it!
All the best
Tuercas Viejas
PS
Something American, but it applies to Brits too!
You owe the bank half a million quid for the mortgage on your house.
Its your responsibility to pay it back.
You owe the bank 2,000,000 quid for a business venture!
Its THEIR responsibility to make sure YOU pay it back.
This is very American--Use someone else's money to fund a business, now that's American in the widest sense of the word including tax breaks and explains in large parts why they are good business people.
T/V
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