Sir Richard Harpin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Persistence pays.
Next time you're over in America, I'll give you an hour of my time.
I said, it just so happens, Nigel, I'm in Washington, D.C.
tomorrow afternoon.
And of course I wasn't.
I got on the first flight out of London, and I was in his office 2 p.m.
the following afternoon.
And he gave me two hours of his time.
And he said, where are you based over here?
I said, oh, we're in Miami.
He said, absolutely not.
Shook his head.
If you want to be a serious American business, hiring serious American business people, you need to be based between Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., five-hour time difference for the U.K.
And he was right.
All the people that we hired into Miami and home served in the early days either wanted to go to the beach at 4 p.m.
or smoke dope.
That is not how you build a serious American business.
His second question was, who have you got running your U.S.
business out here then?
Said, oh, fantastic guy.