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I said why can't someone else do it then? Theres lots of tennis players out there. He said there is no-one else. No-one else is like me. Nadal and Doccich didn't have the same appeal for men. He said he want someone who speaks Russian.

And I said why can't you do it yourself then?

He said that his machines is nothing new, just an agitator with a spin cycle and it's a crowded market, and he wanted people crying out for his product and coming back again and again. 

He said there were three key attribtes for marketing success and he wanted them all associated with his product and he had none of them. They are sex appeal, glamour and efficiency. He said he seen my other products, HEAD, Clear, Sony Ericsson, Nike, Cole Haan, Evian, Tiffany & Co.  and he knew most of them but didn't know who Evian and Cole Haan were. I said Evian is water, and he said that nothing in life is easy but if I wanted to waste my talent trying to sell something for $2 when you can get free from the tap, then go ahead. I'd be better off promoting beer, and he had a couple of breweries if I was interested. I said it costs more than that, when was the last time he didn't brought water? He said he didn't think he ever had. He said his father fought in Benghazi, and could go all day without a drink of water. Like a camel, I said. In fact they carried water but weren't allowed to drink it. Then he said he already owned the Sony half of Sony & Ericcson, Samsung  and  Lucky/Goldstar LG working in the yellow section of computer games, and thought Tag Heuer was a waste of time too because he also designed watches and his software is about to make them useless.

I told him I thought Microsoft owns half of Ericcson, but he said not to worry about  thinking, that he wrote the manual on Microsoft operating systems including the keyboard and country code pages, so he didn't think I knew what I was talking about. He said internet was the one thing of the future.

He said HIS airline, Dragonair paid him a $50 million a year salary, as CEO and he'd give me 25, but I said I want a lot more than that. Did he think I was cheap?  He said no he didn't think I deserved that tag. He'd give me 110.