Shane Parrish
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He wrote, It seems to me the people in business who have the hardest time to get things done are those who can't bring themselves to say no.
They can say maybe, they can say I'll see, they can say later, but sometimes there is only one answer and it is a simple, straightforward no.
He told them it was very difficult the first time, not so difficult the third time,
And after the fifth time, you could say at any time it needed to be said.
Where does a 22 year old learn to think and act like that?
From watching.
The McCains trace their roots back to two brothers who left Ireland in the 1820s and settled along the St.
John River in New Brunswick.
They bought 300 hectares and started farming.
The family has worked that land to this day.
Life revolved around potatoes.
But Harrison's father, Andrew, wasn't just a farmer.
He was a trader.
When US tariffs shut down the American market right next door, he didn't complain about policy.
He got on a boat to the Caribbean.
Then he kept going to South Africa.
He found new buyers and new countries by himself in an era when international business meant weeks at sea with no guarantee of a meeting on the other end.
He built a small fortune.
Harrison was young, but he was watching.
His father never talked about strategy.