(part 1) (published on 02.09.2009) Was it because we had one more transaction on Monday (the seventh one this summer)? Or because the client of this transaction was very happy, spreading around very good words about how myself and my team of collaborators organized the deal and protected him? Who knows? Maybe because it was the first day of the month, yesterday… Important was that my mood was excellent and this is why I decided to attend this strange meeting. A… sweet collaborator of mine You know, all these years in Romania, I have created plenty of friendships, while I also enlarged the [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]“What is collected by wind, is spread by devil…”Thoughts in the plane…
Filed Under: Uncategorized on May 22, 2010 @ 5:00 AM
(All time classic, 09.06.2008) Yes, in this case, I am ALWAYS a liar. I can not say the opposite. But I also have my arguments, I think. If my plane flies on 07.50, I have to be at the airport at 06.50 at the latest, one hour before. If I share this with the taxi driver, he will arrive late to me (trying to get one more client meanwhile) and he will bring me to Eleftherios Venizelos airport (Athens’s airport) at 07.00 – 07.10, telling me that “it is not a problem” and “people will understand”. So, I always lie to them, presenting the hour as 30 minutes earlier than the real one. And guess what, [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]Billionaire without realizing how, Taran without understanding why…
All agriculture lands are not “extravillant” and miracles happen once in a lifetime… (All time classic, 05.09.2008, Part 1) (Taran = peasant) The battle that changed the world… 480 years b.C., history says that 1.000.000 soldiers from the Persian Empire invaded in Greece. This was one of the biggest armies in the history of mankind, for sure the biggest of the ancient times. If only Greeks would not have beaten Persians in the end, now the World history would have been totally different. Back then, it was the Greek admiral Themistocles, who had the brilliant idea to trick the Persian fleet [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]When I fought with… “Diego Armando Maradona” Major problems MUST be solved before we invest on a property
(part 2, for the first part please click here) All time classic, 10.11.2008 “More possible for Nicoleta Luciu to love me next week” Perhaps I was a malakas, a big one. My client’s order was to finalize the transaction without to mention at all the part of the sports base problem. “Our lawyers will take care of it, this is not your business” he told me several times. “In the end of the day, you will be paid your commission, A LOT of money, why do you care? It is OUR problem, not yours”. “If your lawyers will be wrong, you will not blame them for their mistake, you will accuse ME for selling to [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]When I fought with… “Diego Armando Maradona” Major problems MUST be solved before we invest on a property
(part 1) All time classic, 10.11.2008 I never met an old, low class bureaucratic officer of Ceausescu times. I was not around that time (my first trip abroad without my family was at the age of 14, back in 1989, when I travelled as part of a folklore dancing group to Italy and France). But as I was looking to this gentleman, I was sure that if I would be able to travel back in time, lets say to 1978, I would have found him in front of me, sitting in an uncomfortable chair, in the back of an old desk, holding the title of “very important – vital deputy officer, taking care of spreading the ideals [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]When Braila reminded me London…
(All time Classics, 13.02.2008) “MISTER ILIAS” (the tone of her voice was really loud, I felt for a second as if I am a very important person) “these are the lands I was telling you about” “These? What do you mean these? Where do you see these?” “Look right and left, here you can see the areas where you can start buying properties”… When I was young, I was told many times that I have the “eyes of the hawk” and I was really proud of it. That day I realized that it was just a compliment to a young kid… I turned my head right, I could barely see 5 meters inside the road. I turn my head left…. [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]Mr “Goldneck”, a fake “Bentley” and a factory up on Dracula’s hill
(part 2, to read part 1, please press here) “Just 5 minutes drive from here” I turned my head around the square, the central one of this secondary city. So many people passing by, some of them turning their head to see the crazy guy dressed in suit and tie in the middle of the summer. I smiled and I looked at my clock. 11.30 sharp, the time of my meeting. I did not have to wait for long. “Goldneck” appeared soon, making to me signals so as to hurry up and enter in the car. He was driving a quite old Chrysler 300, not recently washed inside. He was together with another gentleman, his unofficial [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]Poor Greece – Rich Greeks and Romania follows…
Filed Under: Uncategorized on Feb 18, 2010 @ 9:00 AM
(part 1 for part 2 please press here, for part 3 please press here) Why Greece ended like this? Today we all read the problems of Greek economy. The World’s top media cover the “Greek tragedy” every single day, presenting a country which is ready to bankrupt, doubting for the good intentions of the new Government, approaching the problem just by touching its surface. The same surface that “looked ok” during the previous years, while the country was heading fast to today’s wreck. Let us try to identify the reality under the surface, always keeping in mind that Greeks and Romanians are 80% alike [...]
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Few days ago, on Tuesday, I had presented to you an interview of Mr Gavin Ryan, an expert in Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. As far as I understood from your feedback, this subject was really interesting for you, as the official information about this segment is really limited. This is why I decided to address to Mr Ryan again, summing some of your questions and adding some new ones. This domain is really interesting and I think that it worths to know ... 
