Created another form of Gambling…..

“Some executives, in an effort to compensate for horrible experiences as children, find an exhilaration in the climb to power. As CEOs of billion-dollar corporations, they only feel alive when dealing with crisis or huge risk. Leveraged buyouts, takeovers and acquisitions become the “bets” of just another form of compulsive gambling. Hooked on the stress of extraordinary power and the risk of losing everything, they cannot leave their jobs. Deal making twenty hours a day, they can hardly sleep or be with their families. They play with traumatic possibility and cannot leave it alone. For recreation they love high-speed motorcycles, sky diving and other high risk diversions.”

Patrick Carnes