Thursday, December 15, 2005

Car-Dealer "Wisdom"

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
XXII - Of Cunning
Essays, Civil and Moral
The Harvard Classics, 1904-14


I caught this morning's interesting Deseret Morning News story , concerning the peculiar business parctices of a Boise car dealer, a Fortune 1000 company, with 94 dealerships in 12 Western states. Lithia Ford certainly knows how to make money. It had $2.7 billion in sales last year.

Perhaps by coincidence, this morning's Standard-Examiner contains this "stirring" editorial, concerning another car-dealer -- a "guy who [also] knows how to make money."

Mr. Miller waxed lavish in his praise for Ogden Mayor Godfrey at Tuesday morning's rec center groundbreaking, for flouting the public will, and throwing caution to the wind in his conduct of the affairs of the public. "It's no fun not taking risks," car-dealer Larry Miller says.

Is it possible these two media articles might possibly share a common theme?

Multiple common themes, perhaps?

Just a thought.

What say our gentle readers about this?

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