I’ve strayed from the Forbes article. Most people who read it will
applaud what your father says about not treating a person differently
because he is your son. But to me sons must be treated differently,
precisely because they are sons; and daughters must be treated differently,
precisely because they are daughters….And hopefully we will give them
something that has less to do with dollar marks than with the human spirit
that comes to them through us.
I’ve completely lost the Forbes article….But I’ve not lost the main
thought that it has led me to: that we can not disinherit our fathers whether
or not they disinherit us.
I don’t feel Pops intended to “disinherit” me, but as Johnnie shows in
the next chapter, he was certainly diminishing the company he had agreed
to sell me by some 33 percent when he cut a deal that worked to my
distinct disadvantage—something that I could never have anticipated and
that put me through hell.
CHAPTER 28: NEVER SELL—NEVER?
As Johnnie Babcock points out, “Park watchers who liked to say they
knew Roy H. Park inside and out insisted that he was an aggressive
business buyer who never sold anything. They were right when it came to
