![]() ![]() In other words, if there’s money involved, you don’t get involved in this business. But the more you need, of course, the less money you need. The whole situation comes from absolutely nothing. But if it’s an LBO, not only do you not have to bring it, you don’t have to see it, you don’t know where you’re going to get it, nobody knows where they got it from. If you don’t got it in cash, you need to bring it by Thursday. But to buy a shoe-shine store, if it costs $3,000, you need $3,000. You need more money to open a shoe-shine shop than you do to buy a $2 billion company, let’s be honest about it. ROSS JOHNSON, president, RJR Nabisco This business, on a legitimate basis, is a fraud. ADOLPHUS GREEN, founder, Nabisco Some genius invented the Oreo. BARBARIANS AT THE GATE The Fall of RJR Nabisco Bryan Burrough AND John Helyar HarperBusiness Essentials To my wife, Marla Dorfman Burrough, and to my parents, John and Mary Burrough of Temple, Texas-JBB To my wife, Betsy Morris, and to my parents, Richard and Margaret Helyar of Brattleboro, Vermont-JSH The officer of every corporation should feel in his heart-in his very soul-that he is responsible, not merely to make dividends for the stockholders of his company, but to enhance the general prosperity and the moral sentiment of the United States. ![]()
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