Creating Value 

Brad Kelley, Who sold his discount tabacco empire for $1B in 2001

Mr. Kelley doesn’t smoke. ‘I never defended it’ he says of his old business. ‘hopefully someday it will be phased out of society.’

Dallas Cowboys, Jones just monetized value created

Murchison was the one who created the mystique and prestige out of nothing. Jones just bought it.

Not creating value

Apple pays $60M to use iPad name in China.

Chen Dandan, On building Shanghai

Chen Dandan spends his days suspended hundreds of feet above downtown Shanghai, building one of the city’s newest skyscrapers. What gives the 26-year-old migrant

Old standards at Goldman/Weinberg

Goldman would not back gambling companies, because they were thought to provide no benefit to society.

David Granger, Editor of Esquire

We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual accomplishment – it amazes me that private enterprise

Rogan Gregory, On jeans that fall apart

‘One thing happened that I thought was funny.’ says Rogan. ‘I made a run of a hundred jeans and I made them as perfectly

Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.