Turning down opportunities (sometimes
even good ones) helps me stick to my word. I guess I,
too, have a “great antipathy to half and half men.” This is true in the
business world as well as in personal matters. Today, I was reading a letter,
Mr. Frankish wrote to Mr. Stamm with regard to a banker. The following is an excerpt
of the letter.
“I do not
know how you felt about Dr. Olmsted but I was much disappointed in him. A man
who will blow hot and cold as he did within 48 hours is not, in my opinion, the
man of stability that we require in a banker.
I felt
that you must think me a fool speaking to you as I did about him being all
ready to go into the business and then to find him so cool and indifferent
about it. But I only repeated his own words as given me here on Friday and he
then told me that he could put in at once $25,000 or $30,000. While today he was
intimated that he had very little of course you may know more of him through
his friends and he may be all right, but I must say that my present impressions
are that we shall be better without him. I have a great antipathy to half and
half men.”
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