One of my Roundtable members is a fine gentleman named Ben. He came to a 4-Man Intensive last spring.
Ben is a typical Planet Perry guy: *Extremely* competent at what he does, and on top of that bends over backwards to help a customer. He’s very empathetic, so he’s eternally susceptible to “Well, I can’t really engage with you as a full client but if you could just help me with this little problem here…”
And he gets on a $0 or $2,000 distraction that…
My most famous ever blog post is called “Perry’s Greed.” It’s about how, at an evening seminar in Chicago, a bunch of people asked me out to lunch. I told them, “If you pay my fee I’ll be happy to sit down with you.”
This made a lot of people angry.
“…Even old John D Rockefeller realised his greed and started giving his money away. Then theres Perry Marshall he won’t go to lunch with eager students and share his knowledge without getting paid. You can rationalize all you want, but your response was arrogant and greedy. Let me summarise, what you did was Bull !@#$%…”
