WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
Gerald C. Myers, chairman of the American Motors Corporation told the following story from medieval times in a speech to the Society of American Business and Economic Writers: The story is about a knight who returned to the castle at twilight in a state of total disarray. Dented armor, helmet falling off, face bloody, horse crippled, and the knight himself about to fall off the limping horse. “What hath befallen you, Sir Knight?” asked the lord of the castle. “Oh, sire?” answered the knight, “I have been laboring in your service, robbing and plundering and pillaging your enemies in the West.” “You’ve what?” cried the lord. “I don’t have any enemies in the West.” “Oh,” said the knight. “You do now!” Roger Ailes, You Are The Message, page 40.
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