...he (still) reminds me of a cliche' I repeated often to him and his teammates during practice and games: "No one ever in the history of baseball ever got a hit...by sitting in the dugout". He's told me he's used that simple adage in his business often enough to know it's an absolute.
It's "safe" to stay on the sidelines and never, ever try. However if you want to be in the game and help your team win, ya gotta go up to the plate and take a few hacks at it. Take advantage of opportunities when they're presented to us.
As any fan knows, no one bats a thousand. There's gonna be slumps and setbacks along the way. But if you stay focused and don't let the fear of failure eat at you from within, you'll usually end up getting what you want in the long run. Originally Posted by Chateau Becot
Yep. Yep. Yep.
I've made this same point for years but in a different context. It's been apparent to me for some time that dimotards HATE business. Nothing infuriates them more than a Republican who has achieved success in business. They belittle and nitpick and try to tear down the business record of every GOP candidate that has the gonads to run for public office.
Exhibit I - Mitt Romney was a very successful private equity partner at Bain Capital. I recall something like 19 out of every 20 deals he was involved with at Bain were winners. Whether they turned around failing companies or jump-started new ones, each success boosted jobs, incomes and tax revenues in their local communities. They took risks with each deal. They went to bat and didn't hide in the dugout. Bain's batting average, while not perfect, was quite respectable. So how in the fuck does Mr. Community Organizer - someone who never met a payroll in his fucking life - get to run around screaming "You didn't build that!" and spend tainted Soros money on distorted political ads spotlighting the 1 out of 20 deals that failed?
Exhibit II - Then 4 years later along comes Donald Trump. While he may not have been the most exemplary businessman - he cut his teeth in NYC when the mafia ran the building trades - he also had a largely successful track record. The fact that 4-5 of his businesses declared bankruptcy might be damning if he had no successes to offset them. But if he built 50+ skyscrapers and 90% of them performed well, then his track record looks entirely different. The only thing you can count on is that dim-retards will always scream about the failures and ignore the successes.
Now I could shrug and say that's just politics, but what galls me is this - the people who do the heckling from the cheap seats are in most cases a bunch of fucking losers who stayed in the dugout all their lives! They were too timid or lazy or stupid to step up and bat! Fake news toadies, sycophants, swamp dwellers, political hangers-on - they all played it safe. They never earned the right to criticize, let alone foster intense and irrational hatred of, business. If you don't know what it means to struggle to meet a fucking payroll, then shut the fuck up. And that goes for every one of the dimotard-socialist numbnuts who are currently running or planning to run for President.
He can get away with it because he thinks he's a star.
