Cutting a Bad Investment

I followed your advice, Richard. You said I was a bad investment.

You said I needed to understand the real world. So I went out and bought the real

world." He turned to look at me. His eyes were wet. For a second,

I thought I saw pride. I thought he was going to say, Good job,

son. You beat me. But Richard Sterling didn't do pride for others.

He only did ego. "You ungrateful little bastard," he hissed. "I made you.

I pushed you. You think this impresses me? Sneaking around? Buying paper?

You don't know the first thing about running this company. You'll drive it into the ground