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   From: wildstar128@hotmail.com   
      
   Being a hard-ass was "law of business" and about 99% of businessmen running   
   major corporations in high competition was that way.   
      
   In that day, if you can't handle it, "get the F*** out" was the rule. So   
   Jack is no different than any other CEO coming from the 50s. Jack's   
   ruthlessness is no different then IBM of the 50s/60s. Remember, Jack was an   
   old school businessman. Donald Trump is much the same way.   
      
   It was also common that vendors and sub-contractors also try to charge a   
   higher rate than they had agreed and signed on. It was cutthroat. But that   
   was the entire world of business. Kill or be killed. Business is war.   
   Remember that?   
      
   Also don't believe all the stories that you hear. Jack may have been tough   
   and change decisions like a dime but remember it is what he does to keep the   
   business in competition or it'll be destroyed. Jack did what he did to   
   squash competition because that was exactly what the others *WILL* do. The   
   game was monopoly and to control the entire industry. To rake in as much   
   money as possible. Jack was a shrewd and tough businessman but lets all   
   remember that.   
      
   It isn't just his time in the concentration camp but if you were being   
   tortured and seeing your father die in front of your own eyes - it will   
   effect you and you wouldn't be the same. Often, you'll be tough. Lets not   
   forget that alot of the businessmen were former WWII soldiers and started   
   business after the war. For many cases, they were a tough, no-nonsense,   
   no-bullshit people who you don't talk back to. They are serious and Jack was   
   just that. Sure, he wasn't a "soldier" but he sure lived and seen shit that   
   sometimes soldiers have to go through and if you haven't had to see it,   
   thank your lucky stars.   
      
   Enough said. I think the point is clear.   
      
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   > On Nov 7, 2:05 pm, "Brian Bagnall"  wrote:   
   >>  Basically Jack is done with the   
   >> confrontational period of his life where he had to be hard nosed in order   
   >> to   
   >> run a company in a cutthroat industry.   
   >   
   > Does being "hard-nosed" include treating employees like crap and not   
   > paying vendors and sub-contractors?  Sorry, but when someone pulls   
   > shit like that for years, they simply can't brush it aside with a wave   
   > of their hand.  I'm fully aware that his attitude with how he treated   
   > people was very likely the result of his Holocaust experiences as a   
   > Nazi death camp prisoner.  It's just a shame that he passed on all   
   > that anger and disrepect, which resulted in him making a lot of   
   > enemies throughout his career.  Maybe that's why he's been so   
   > reclusive ever since retiring, hmm?   
   >   
      
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