Only wanting a less than $5000 greased palm ! The man's cheap :-)
jh
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From: "Paul Braun" <cygnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] You're rich. Buy your own, OK?
On 11/16/11 02:58 : , Andrew Fildes wrote:
> #1 son sent me a message a couple of days ago - he's finally written about
> photography - in a way.
> He seemed to find this quite amusing -
>
> "I got this mini-scoop into The Times today:"
> • Another sign that the days of the corporate freebie are over. Joe
> Baratta, the most senior member of Blackstone’s private equity team in
> Europe, spearheaded the £100 million-plus investment in Leica in October.
> The private equity heavy hitter mentioned at that time that he was lusting
> after a Leica camera, having completed the deal for a 44 per cent stake in
> the German company. A month on and City Diary learns that Mr Baratta
> finally has his Leica. However, we were surprised to learn that he had to
> fork out for the camera from his own pocket. “Aren’t you in private
> equity? Don’t you earn enough money to buy your own?” Mr Baratta was asked
> when he inquired whether he could have one on the house. Typical teutonic
> frugality or a sign that the company is very tightly run?
>
> I explained to him that the nice folk at Leica only admire two types of
> people - very good photographers and very good camera designers. The rest
> of us can cough up.
> And Chris B, if you want to criticise his grammar I'll let him know and
> give him your phone number. And you really, really don't want me to do
> that. He can be a very grumpy young man.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
LOL! This made me smile first thing this morning.
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