No Such Thing as a Free Lunch – How Quickly We Forget
In the midst of all these bailouts – investment banks, insurance companies, and possibly automakers – I ran across this quote from Lee Iacocca:
There ain’t no free lunches in this country. And don’t go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You’ve got to say, ‘I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.’
Wait a minute! Isn’t Lee Iacocca the same guy who engineered the “bailout” of Chrysler back in 1979? So, Lee, have you forgotten that you received the proverbial “free lunch”? Or, did you?
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