Brad Jacobs
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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.
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.