Brad Jacobs
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And Philip Brothers was a big player.
So naturally our paths crossed.
One day I got a call from his secretary saying, Mr. Jessison would like to have lunch with you.
I said, wow, that's a big break.
I'm in, tell me when.
So I went in and this became one of many lunches I went to New York to his office.
And during those lunches, I paid attention.
I just zeroed in on everything he said, everything he did, his nuance, his face, everything.
And I just asked him lots of questions.
And he was very generous with sharing his insights on stuff.
And I learned a lot about business and I learned a lot about life.
He was a very religious person, much more religious than I am.
And he believed in principles.
He believed in certain basic concepts.
And in Judaism, he was Jewish, Orthodox Jew.
It was a lot about morality.
It was about ethics.
It was about right and wrong and about
Certain things are not gray.
They're either black or they're white.