sometimes, gambling pays off

merlyn on 2005-09-25T21:57:00

According to The Wikipedia on Federal Express,

[FedEx] almost went bankrupt in its first year, but to make it through the christmas, Fred Smith convinced his employees to work at 70% of their wage. He then took all of his money to Vegas and made enough at the tables to weather a few more months until business picked up.
Now, that's risk-on-risk. Wow. Kahunas on that guy.


But ...

Smylers on 2005-09-26T06:38:11

If he was that good at making money at casinos, why didn't he just give up FedEx and become a full-time gambler?

Smylers