Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 13, 2000

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Bernie: Mind if I join you? Mike: Not at all. Can you give me a job? Bernie: Nope. You're too hot. Mike: You know the worst thing about tanking, Bernie? It's so public! Who's going to want to do business with me now? Bernie: Are you kidding me? Mike, if you had lost a few hundred K on a local business, then you'd have the stink of death...but you lost $50 million of other people's money! That makes you bold, a player! In today's economy, nothing succeeds like big-time failure! Look at the chairman of amazon.com! He lost $350 million last year, and he was Time's man of the year! Mike: Wow... that's right...you...you really think I'm a promising failure? Bernie: Promising? You're a huge failure! You should be flying!