“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
– John Ruskin (Victorian Art Critic)
And some Real Hip-Hop:
Cormega – Fresh Feat. Red Alert, Parrish Smith, Puba, Krs-One & Big Daddy Kane
(Side note: Drug Deals should never be conducted over the phone or via Email. And no, saying “I need 50 white T-shirts” won’t work either.)
It is the same thing when swooping Girls.
Informational texts are OK, especially when you have already swooped her. For instance, “Meet me at 11pm at the fountain.” or “See you at 9pm, make sure you wear heels and a dress.”
But when she says, “I am not sure if I can meet then, can we meet at my parents restaurante later in the night?”
This is when you need to switch to Phone Game and sell her.
This is when you need to hit The Six Elements of Picking Up Girls: Sizzle, Control, Rapport, Trust, Urgency and Greed. If you don’t you could go back and forth on Text for hours.
Junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, who are putting the finishing touches on a deal for a Dec. 3 rematch, will meet at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN.com on Wednesday.
“Everything is being finalized for the fight and when it is, we’ll be at Madison Square Garden,” duBoef said of the famed arena, which is undergoing a significant renovation. “Madison Square Garden is one of the most important arenas in the country and I like doing events here. Miguel has a big fan base here and we want those fans to see him again.”
When Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs) and Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) met in 2008, they waged their memorable welterweight title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Margarito’s Mexican fans were out in force. He came on strong in the fight’s second half to stop Cotto in the 11th round of a bloody battle, a win later tainted when Margarito was caught trying to enter the ring in his next fight, against Shane Mosley, wearing loaded hand wraps.
Here is a recent question from one of our readers:
“I respect your writing style and literary swagger, and I enjoy the hell out of your content. Keep it up.
I hold down a very respectable (redacted) startup in its (redacted) year, (redacted) employees, annual rev around $(redacted)m. We sell (redacted) to medium and large firms. I am not the owner but I have respectable share in the company, and I function as a vice president.
Many business employ women in their marketing departments. I bang on average at least one client every 4 months, often more now the recession is over. How advisable is this? I’m not asking at a dating advice level, I’m asking for sheer baller status. Is it weak sauce game to pounce so heavily where ones money cometh from? Does banging clients over time erode your ability to extract more funds from them? Guy from Mad Men wouldnt care but his world had very different parameters than ours does.
Just curious. I am a complete loss for whether this is good, bad or neither.
Thanks brother, keep tossing out that fuego,
(redacted)”
Excellent question.
I have never watched “Mad Men” but I am familiar with the gist of the show. (It is amazing how many people mention this show to me, I probably need to watch it sometime).
And yes, our world has changed a lot in comparison to years gone by. I often rap out and watch big boxing matches at this older biz cat’s crib that I am good friends with. He is always talking about the glory days of when he would drink non-stop at work and swoop his secretaries. But that is neither high heels nor greased up construction deals.
To get back to the heart of your question, I would say for sure it’s a bad move.
Thankfully, I have most of my life been working in “industries” where there are not many women around. And I like it this way. I like separating women and biz, since the two mix together like combustible pool chemicals.
Often I have been enticed by “glamour businesses” where you can swoop mad girls along with work (coincidentally, I almost just invested in one with a lot of model swooping upside), but I have been glad that I haven’t gotten involved. Bottom line:
1. Glamour businesses always seem difficult to get your money out
2. I love women as much as the next psychotic International Playboy, but hanging out with them 24/7 is for the weesh
3. See #2
Swooping work girls is understandable if those “work girls” happen to be Models (or girls with Beauty, Intelligence, Money and Family. BIMF’s) .
But 9-5 girls? No shot.
And all that extra risk for an additional 3 swoops per year? Better off taking a Mini-Retirement to Las Vegas and increase those numbers 10 fold.
Most importantly, you never want to mess with anything that can potentially jeopardize your CASH flow.
Sol Price, a retail magnate who three decades ago altered both the American landscape and the American way of shopping by founding Price Club, the first nationwide members-only discount warehouse, died on Monday at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 93.
With Robert, Mr. Price started the first Price Club in 1976 in a cavernous former airplane parts factory in an unfashionable part of San Diego. The business, which offered consumer goods as varied as tires, books and household appliances at extremely low prices, proved to be the leading edge in the multibillion-dollar influx of discount big-box stores, among them Costco, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Sam’s Club.
I am a couple of days late on this story, as I was busy swooping fly girls in the Caribe, getting mad shoulder rubs, while puffing on Marlboro Gold’s.
I was deeply saddened by the news of Mr. Price’s passing, as I have some ties to the family. My heart goes out to them.
A True G, top tier biz cat, Democratic powerhouse and always gave back. And did it with Style. People’s Champ if the ever was one.
The main lesson from him: Keep overhead to an absolute minimum.
You know your G when Sam Walton bites your steez:
One of the chief beneficiaries of Mr. Price’s legacy, Sam Walton, acknowledged the debt in his 1992 memoir, “Made in America” (Doubleday, 1992; with John Huey). Mr. Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, wrote, “I guess I’ve stolen — I actually prefer the word ‘borrowed’ — as many ideas from Sol Price as from anybody else in the business.”
Michael Porfirio Mason
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AKA The Sly, Slick and the Wicked
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