Brad Jacobs

Murder's out.

Murder's not good.

He saw life in terms of honesty.

He saw life in terms of people who he could trade with, who would be reliable trading partners, and people who were, in Yiddish, they call it ganifs, thieves.

And

He tried not to do business with the ganas.

And when he had a trading partner that was honest, that was ethical, he did a lot of business with them.

Because back then, remember, there was no email.

There wasn't even the fax machine.

There was telexes and twixes that barely worked.

And so your word really was your bond.

And you needed to trade with people that were going to perform.

Because if you bought a cargo of oil for someone, $23, and then the market went up to $25, you didn't want a partner that said, I'm not honoring that deal.

There's nothing in writing.

So you needed people who would honor their work, had integrity.

He placed a very high value on integrity and dealing with people.

And he put a lot of emphasis on dealing with people who would perform what they said they were going to perform.

I was fortunate to hang around with his family a lot of times on Shabbat.

But unfortunately, on Shabbat, you can't talk business.

So I couldn't talk business.