Anthony Scilipoti
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And management starts sweating and say, why are you asking that?
I don't know.
You have your answer before you ask a question.
You know, they interviewed Andrew Fastow, who was the CFO of Enron.
And he's done many an interview on this.
Also, because when we do our training, we have a few of these interviews that we that we quote.
And it's companies don't start out as being crooked.
They have to convince someone to buy a product.
Okay.
Or a service.
So money comes in to the company in some fashion or time and then gets converted into something that adds value.
The problem becomes outside stakeholders come in and say, well, I need you to make X because you want my money.
Well, I'll give you my money so long as you give me this return.
Well, that works until there's a problem.
And now there's no CEO that wants to disappoint.
So it's very simple.
The CFO comes to talk to me.
I'm the CEO.
And he says, look, I know, Anthony, we were going to make a dollar, but we're coming in at 95 cents.
And I say to him, you get back to your room and find me five cents.