{"id":437,"date":"2011-02-14T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:46:03","slug":"elephants-are-bargain-at-two-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2011\/02\/elephants-are-bargain-at-two-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Elephants are a bargain at two for a quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/5446385164\/\" title=\"Two Elephants by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two Elephants\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4093\/5446385164_3e43f015b3_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elephants in the Caprivi Strip, Namibia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Business management advice I heard twenty years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>&#8220;If they&#8217;re selling elephants two for a quarter, that&#8217;s a great bargain, but only if you have a quarter and only if you need elephants.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/07\/12\/nyregion\/new-york-city-is-urged-to-buy-big-trump-site.html\">David N. Dinkins, 1990<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bought any elephants lately?<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants in the Caprivi Strip, Namibia Business management advice I heard twenty years ago: &#8220;If they&#8217;re selling elephants two for a quarter, that&#8217;s a great bargain, but only if you have a quarter and only if you need elephants.&#8221; David N. Dinkins, 1990 Bought any elephants lately? New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}