Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
How can you have a partnership when one of the partners doesn’t show up for 5 days…. The President said nothing while Americans watched people drown in New Orleans.
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.
I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any entity by issuing an ultimatum.
We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however.
You have to go with the person who you have the most confidence in, the most consistent. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, but I'm going down with that person.
If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.
I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.