{"id":6593,"date":"2014-02-10T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2014-02-10T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:20:04","slug":"open-your-own-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/open-your-own-store\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEN YOUR OWN STORE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>OPEN YOUR OWN STORE<\/p>\n<p>When (\u2026) Lebanese entrepreneur Alex Massad\u2014 described by Fortune as one of America\u2019s toughest businessmen\u2014 first accepted a position with Mobil Oil, Massad\u2019s mother lamented, \u201c[ W] hy don\u2019t you go into business for yourself? Why don\u2019t you open a store?\u201d But Massad stayed on, rising quickly to become one of Mobil\u2019s top executives. Finally, on one visit home, Alex . . . announced triumphantly, \u201cMama, I have bought a store.\u201d Her elderly face brightened at the news. At last! Alex had taken her advice; her son would finally be judged a success in her community. . . . \u201cI bought Montgomery Ward!\u201d Her smile changed to a disappointed frown. She was unimpressed and said, with despair, \u201cIt\u2019s not the same thing. I meant your own store!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Chua, Amy &amp; Rubenfeld, Jed, 2014 . The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152024133358375&amp;id=13012333374\">OPEN YOUR OWN STORE When (\u2026) Lebanese&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPEN YOUR OWN STORE When (\u2026) Lebanese entrepreneur Alex Massad\u2014 described by Fortune as one of America\u2019s toughest businessmen\u2014 first accepted a position with Mobil Oil, Massad\u2019s mother lamented, \u201c[ W] hy don\u2019t you go into business for yourself? Why don\u2019t you open a store?\u201d But Massad stayed on, rising quickly to become one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}