The Businessman At Bay

The Businessman at BayI remember, when I was still very much of a business tyro, learning an invaluable lesson from a man who even then had extensive business holdings and who later became one of America's wealthiest industrialists. Although I knew him fairly well, I hadn't seen him for several months before bumping into him one day in the lobby of a Chicago hotel."How are things going?" I asked him after we'd exchanged the customary greetings."Not good -- terrible, in fact,"...