I heard a quote and a joke on an entrepreneurship seminar and thought it worthwhile to share here.

“The bottleneck is always at the top of the bottle“.  This was purportedly a quote from Peter Drucker, and illustrates that it is the CEOs responsibility to prepare the talents and the skills of the company to do battle.  More often than not, the failure of the company to seize opportunities, or to grow may be due to the limitations of the CEO in not laying the proper groundwork for the company.

While acknowledging that the CEO has this responsibility though, it is important to note that we are all human, and nobody is God, and it is not right to put into the CEO God-like or perfect expectations in anticipating and planning for everything.

This joke is a dig on old wisdom….

An ancient Greek philosopher once was said to write, ” It is not the man who has little but the man who craves more who is poor.”

This saying underlies the need to be satisfied and content, and lays the groundwork for our next joke.

“Who is richer, the man with ten children, or the man with $10 million.”

” The man with 10 Children.”

“Why?”

“Because the man with 10 children doesn’t want any more!”