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Old 24 Oct 2009, 19:02 (Ref:2568832)   #146
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"He has made his money by digging holes in the ground. He is not in a service industry, he has not made his money by creating a consumer (sic) and satisfying a consumer and listening to public demand and pricing a product right, he's made his money by finding natural resources, mining them, and selling them to the Chinese, you know. Very different and they have brought people from that background, and now they are in a market where the customer is right and the customer will vote with their feet. And they are...and the fact that they are talking about issues like parking at home games suggests that they didn't think about these issues before, and now they are they are being caught on the hop, trying to do things on the fly and trying to be reactive....if they have not done that basic stuff what else have they not done..."

Source: Australian Four Four Two podcast, on the failure of mining magnate Clive Palmer's failure to get crowds to the home games of Gold Coast United, the football club he has created.

A bit off topic but it reminded me of someone else!
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