When Disputes Derail Dreams

A note to young leaders.

When a man returned to the village of his boyhood years and asked after Old Farmer Smith, he was told: “Have you not heard? He lost his farm.”

“No. What happened?”

“Well, one day he got the idea that his neighbour’s fence was half a metre into his land. He took to brooding over it.

Finally he went to see a lawyer, telling him he thought this was encroachment. Well, the lawyer thought so too!”

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Litigation is costly – in money, in time, in energy – but above all, in headspace.

It’s hard to launch the next unicorn when you’re busy reading and writing affidavits.

Voltaire once said: “I have never been ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.”