Takeover [antikvár]

Businessmen aren't fools. They can see as clearly as the next person the right way to do something. After all, no one sets out to do it wrong! But have you ever thought how rarely anyone ever gets it right? And I think this is because you can't make decisions about business in a vacuum. Nothing lives in a vacuum - all it does is keep tea hot. Decisions are made in the world, they are always a compromise between a few things that are about business and a thousand other things that aren't. The baby is teething, your neighbour's just bought a better car than you, the cat was sick on the carpet, who was that gorgeous girl standing next to you in the lift? Are you going to put your mother in a nursing home? These are the stuff of business decisions just as much as balance sheets and sales forecasts. Jim Crawford, interview in the Guardian, Oct. 1999