When the economy gets tough, you need to get tough as well. This means usually working more, optimizing things you already do to be more efficient, controlling costs, make sure you are more attentive and close to your own customers, and being better than your competition.
The Story of the Lion and the Gazelle
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
The moral:
It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
I am seeing too many pointing fingers especially the politicians of which all bear responsibility when most everyone was involved in the problem. Our current presidential candidates are not exempt as one side was too close to Freddie and Fannie even alleged payments from them, and the other wore blinders and listened to snake oil salesmen on Wall Street. Now its back to the people who did not make the millions to tighten belts, knuckle down, fix it, and learn from it. It may be a tough road, but we will all make it.
Shaan
Uh, your logic is skewed. The gazelle only has to run faster than the nth slowest gazelle in the herd to keep from being eaten. Where n is the number of lions.
Miles,
It is an African saying and simplified to provide a moral story not prove a mathematical thesis on herd predator theory. Perhaps Gazelle and Lion refer to n quantity or population. 🙂
The only extra effort these times require is for the American people to throw out the political party that has handed their country over to big business and other greedy special interests lock, stock and barrel, and in doing so, have sold out your children and your children’s children.
That’s all we need to do to solve this problem.
CADDOutsourcer,
I don’t think things are just that easy. It was not only one group of politicians, it was all sides lining their pockets as well as Wall Street crafting complex new trading instruments. Even the politicians for change lined their pockets with change. This was in addition to some people able to qualify for homes they simply could not afford expecting the value to rise and then be able to finance later based on equity.
What a mess…
OK enuff on politics,
this is a CAD blog. 🙂
-s