Title: About My Being Arrogant
One day in 1986,
while Julie Jorrie and I were having a discussion on the problems we were having in marketing the Coliseum Rd Building,
She and I got into a discussion on some real estate related topic,
and Julie asked me jokingly:
“Daddy, How come you are so Arrogant?”
Realizing that she certainly was Correct,
I told her I needed a few days to think about that before I answered. In a few days, she came to my office again, and I replied:
“Julie, When I was 22 years old, I had 205 employees at Jorrie Furniture Company,
and all I did was Make Decisions all day long, … thousands and thousands of decisions,
and the only answer I can give you,
is that when you make thousands of decisions,
and most of them are correct,
then after a while,
you think you can’t make a mistake,
even when you make one!
Maybe that’s the source of my Arrogance.
Robert Jorrie,
1989