I love this interesting smorgasboard of anecdotes on money which I took from . I thought I'd share them with you:
The writer-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk accompanied one German businessman in his trip to Russia. And at the end of this trip the translator asked the German:"Do you understand that your company risks much by investing money in the Russian economy? What if Russia will fall in default again and split into parts?The old Bavarian smiled:"If Russia split into parts, it will mean that we, Germans or Americans, haven't invested money here in vain."* * *
The teacher-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk conducted a lesson in German. The topic was economics and bank business.
"What do you think I must do to become a successful banker?" asked a student.
"I can't say what you should do, but I can tell what you shouldn't do. Follow the three rules: first, don't lend money those who don't have any; second, don't lend money those who need it badly; third, don't lend your own money."
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During a lecture the students asked their teacher-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk:"Why don't American and European businessmen invest money in the Ukrainian economy?"
"They don't understand our realities. In the USA a businessman should compete for his place under the sun. But in Ukraine, if a businessman wants to earn money, he should find a place in the shadow and doesn't shine," explained the teacher.
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The Ukrainian youth enjoys computers like other young people in the world.
"It was a wise man who created the computer?" expressed his excitement a boy who attended the English course conducted by the teacher-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk.
"You are wrong," said the teacher-polyglot. "In this world only God creates; Satan makes up; the Europeans and migrants from Europe into the North America invent; the Russians find; the Chinese compile; and the Jews make a profit on their activity.
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One day the teacher-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk met his former school-mate and they had a talk. And the first question was about jobs.
"I am a general director of my own company," praised the school-mate.
"Recently you told me that you were just a director," remarked Oleg Palamarchuk.
"It was earlier, then I was alone, but now I hired a guy, and there are two persons in the company: he is a director, but I am a general director."
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Once a school-girl asked her teacher-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk:"Why don't you do business? You know so much! What can you earn by teaching in the country where not so many people want to study?
"To do business in my country", explained Oleg Palamarchuk, "one should be slippery, otherwise one will be caught; one should be hard, otherwise one will be cracked; one should be flexible, otherwise one will be broken. And the main rule of our business: the less you know, the longer you will live. But I know too much to survive in our business."
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One day a friend of the writer-polyglot Oleg Palamarchuk called him up:"I want to share my joy with you. I have just von 1000 dollars at a lottery."
"OK, give me half the sum and I will share your joy."
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