Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Long Grudge

I just returned from the Mid Am trade show.

 

It was a huge success.  I sold stuff.  It worked well.

 

But I ran into a guy who could have sold me $30,000 worth of goods for me to resell.  He complained about a deal that happened years ago and how he couldn’t forgive me for it.  I don’t recall the whole thing.  It was small potatoes.

 

He proved that the price of a grudge is huge indeed.  He lost.

 

On the other hand I ran into a guy who stiffed me out of several hundred bucks a couple months ago.  I could now sell him $6000 worth of goods.  I am going to go ahead but make it all back in one fell swoop.

 

That’s how to keep grudges short and settled.

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