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Al C.risafulliI agree with Jim Crandell in his assessment that every single post that Bruce makes on this board is interesting, thought-provoking, or guaranteed to start discussion. While there have been posts of Bruce's that have made me angry, there have been an equal number of them that have made me think.
That said, Bruce said this:
"We would rather concentrate 100% of our efforts on winning new business,
working 18 hour days 7 days a week 52 weeks a year and building our
world class baseball memorabilia collection."
Bruce, if you really work this much, by my calculations, you work 6,552 hours a year. I will estimate your age at 35, and also estimate that you've been working full time since you emerged from your Masters' program at 25. That means you've been working ten solid years for more than 65,000 hours. If you've been working longer than that, I apologize for underestimating.
However, If that were truly the case, that would mean that you would be unbelievably, colossally bad at what you do. It is, of course, without question that you are very successful. But you are not a living legend, the very and most famous ever to exist in your industry, the most financially successful with the greatest reputation. You are not the subject of textbooks or college courses. There are not awards named after you, and you are, to my knowledge, not working with every Fortune 500 company out there. With an investment of 65,000 hours, a person of your talents most certainly would have risen to greater achievements.
Thankfully, I understand your gift for hyperbole, and thus realize that you would never actually criticize or demean the personal choices of others, and thus I know you were only being facetious with your statement.
As far as I'm concerned, I've got you all beat. Although you all have lovely families, my wife is the best, and she's given me the three most fantastic children in the world. Each and every minute that I spend with them is the equivalent of a uncut sheet of Boston Garters, plus two or three packs of 1990 Donruss.
-Al