Posted by
RicFrankel on Friday, March 06, 2009 5:51:45 PM
I like Humphries’ world of “bean growers” and “bean counters” where: bean counters are those folks who love balance sheets, think profits just magically happen, and that the counting of the beans is far more important than the growing of beans; and where bean growers are the folks who actually create wealth producing beans. But I’d add to the growers and counters: the “bean sellers” who neither produce nor count beans but rather convince people to acquire more beans than they need and move beans from the bean seller’s pile to customers’ piles, keeping a few beans for themselves for each move; and lawyers and managers of people who don’t grow, count or move beans and don’t know anything about beans at all but nevertheless tell everybody else what they should or should not do with beans --- amassing great amounts of beans in the process.