Great breakdown. Much appreciated. Your avatar is trash. That is all.

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Harper hit 10 HRs over 450 feet. The rest of the field combined to hit 9 HRs over 450 feet.

Outstanding!

I saw that. Exciting times for Dontaie and his family!!!

In 1999 Papa John was sued by Lesli Workman for sexual harassment. He countersued claiming that she was trying to extort money from him. The suit was dismissed. No word of a settlement.

And this proves he is smart how?

And he is stupid.

I call it like I see it. Papa John isn’t a smart man in my book. A smart man knows when and where to use the n word without losing social status over it.

Depends on who you ask. Some say I am smart. Others say I am stupid. I truly don’t care what anyone thinks though. Especially after watching humans walk around these days. I say what I say. I feel what I feel. My wife loves me. My kids love me. My true friends love me. What else matters? I’m a hard worker. Don’t have many talents. I’m sure I’ve spent well over 2M in my life. I’d say he and Lavar Ball are intellectually...

It’s possible to be stupid and be a great businessman.

Knowing how to do one thing good doesn’t make you smart.

I’m thinking all people who want to have business and have good credit has a business of some sort. Did Papa John decide to go public all by himself or was he advised to go public by someone to do so? When he was making pizzas in daddy’s closet was it his grand scheme to go public one day or did things just fall into place once he found some success? Did he study what other franchise fast food restaurants did to become successful...

Ahhh okay. Guess they just weren’t smart enough. Only smart people are successful and rich and everyone else is just too stupid. My bad. It all makes sense now.

That’s exactly how it works. He didn’t invent the franchise model for restaurants and once someone purchases a franchise the only thing on it is his name. That doesn’t take smarts. That takes hard work, motivation, access and networking more than anything else. He did what Pizza Hut has been doing for decades and folks are like, “man he’s really smart.” Hogwash. He’s a hard worker.

I never said it was easy. I said you don’t have to be smart to have his financial success. You have to have his work ethic and motivation. Brain power though? Hell nah. Hard work beats brains and talent everyday.

Have any of you ever worked for a Papa John’s? Do any of you actually know his business structure and how it works?

I’d say he’s more of a hard worker than an intelligent human being. It ain’t hard to copy off of other people. Hard work gets you access and networking. And you don’t have to be smart to be a hard worker.

So he gets credit for being smart because his company grew to a point to where he could take it public? Is he the first person to do that? If so then kudos to him. Maybe he is smart. If he isn’t the first person to do it then maybe just maybe he used the exact same blueprint the other successful fast food restaurants used. It’s not hard or intellectually challenging to copy someone else’s design and have success.

Yeah well, I’m not buying it. You’ll never convince me that access and networking haven’t been better for him than his brain power. Access being of the utmost importance.

One could say the same about Papa John. :lol2:

Or smart enough to hire the right people to propel his business. I’m always amused when a corporation does well but folks only want to give credit to one person for its success. He didn’t do it alone and he’s clearly not as smart as he thinks he is. There are filthy rich stupid people everywhere. I guess you think Kylie Jenner is smart too.

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We all witness different things when seeing the same thing.

That’s what they want you to believe.

It took him a long time to get that net worth. Let’s not act like he became a billionaire in a year. More like almost 30 years. Access and networking helped him a lot more than his brain power.

Debatable. I’ve never subscribed to the belief that finding a way to make a billion dollars makes you smart. Access and networking are more important than brain power.

His word is trash. Poor fella is trying to save himself because he isn’t a smart human being.

Of course. If they find it funny then laugh. More often than not when black comedians use it they aren’t using it in a demeaning way. Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy have had audiences filled with white people. In my experiences when blacks use the n word in a demeaning manner in the presence of white people the white people get incredibly uncomfortable. Clearly these folks at these events aren’t feeling...

All black people get a pass for saying it. Comedians, movie stars, janitors, athletes, politicians, bankers, lawyers, judges, Uber drivers, fast food workers, Walmart greeters.....if they are black...fire away. If they are white, they better be in a safe space away from recording devices and cameras. They may lose their job.