He forgot the number one rule of business ....
Business is built on relationships...
i run my own business, businesses to be exact ....
I never had a contract , signed an agreement, went into a venture where the people didnt like me first before they decided to fukk with me ....
Its always been the people decide whether they like you as a person before they gonna fukk with you ......
you generally end up going to a lot of business lunches, dinners, meetings while you feel each other out (pause) ...... before you even discuss the venture
You learn in business for better or for worse no matter what the situation to keep it "business" because you dont know tomorrow ...
compare Dame and his former partner jay Z ....
while I think Dame is more intelligent Jay is definitely more smarter ....
You look at all the people he beefed with, whether it was Nas, Joe , even Biggs .... those were REAL beefs, not just hip hop shyt .... they doing business with him today because Jay was always smart enough not to take things too far and mostly kept his emotions out of it ....
look at Dame , you beef with him and he burns bridges , its like the dude takes things too far to the point where people just wont fukk with him again
The really smart person is the one who keeps emotions out of business ....
How you do business is very important .... being a ballbreaker works as long as you remain in a position of power .... you lose that power and need a favour ..... people will remember
Ask yourself this , when the Roc broke up and everyone under the umbrella had a choice who they wanted to sign with why did they choose Jay and not Dame? even Kanye West ?
I remember once sitting in a government commissioners office trying to middleman a deal with a finance institution , this finance institution was putting up a minimum of $6,000,000 investment into a government public/private initiative .... even though the finance institution had met all the prerequisites
the govt official was like "nah this isnt going to work" ..... come to find out they didnt like the CEO of the finance company , they just didnt like his personality so they walked away from the deal , in the same meeting dude told me they liked me and my people and that if we could put something together the deal was ours for the taking ..... They even offered to help me to raise the money ....
Theres people that Ive done business with that we've sat in opposite sides of the courtroom that im still cordial with today and in the future who knows?
But it anyone barked on me the way Dame barked at people I wouldnt even piss on him if he were on fire let alone do business with him