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jjuliustoday at 3:25 PM1 replyview on HN

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

- Teddy Roosevelt


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tomberttoday at 3:40 PM

Often I'm not even entirely convinced they know a lot about their own business either. It seems like the ones who make the cartoonishly large amounts of money are the ones who got lucky to hire decent people early on.