Fred Smith didn't fly off with a half-assed idea, he had a market strategy, a position, funding etc.... different than the don quijote.


>Hi John,
>It's hard to argue with your point, but it's also hard to tell when something most folks think is foolish will succeed. I'm thinking of FedEx. Every so often something that seems foolish at the time works out. The market is a very powerful thing and very often, hard to understand. There are those that think they understand it, and may understand the basic tenants, but still miss a lot. It's hard to know what is important to the future and how the market will change. It's the same as the voting paradox: Your vote can't matter, but each vote must matter. Your work in VFP can't matter, but it must. We will have a version 9 after years of saying, "It's over."
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>>>< But that doesn't change the fact that others before you have taken up the Don Quijote crusade and made zero difference.>
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>>>Not everyone is a Don Quixote at the end, yet in order to succeed everyone has to be one in the beginning.
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>>I don't agree. People that start on a quest that is well-reasoned and funded and has some chance of suceeding are entrepreneurs not Don Quijotes. Don Quijotes are those that fly off half-assed on a whim and think they will make a difference. There is a big difference between the two concepts.