:18:01
Come into my office a moment,
Mr MacDonald.
:18:04
Yes, sir.
:18:30
I've been watching you for some time,
Mr MacDonald.
:18:32
Yes, sir. It used to make me kind of nervous.
:18:36
- Not nervous any more?
- No, sir.
:18:38
- Are you a drinking man, then?
- Sir?
:18:40
This is part of your yesterday's work.
I believe your number is 112?
:18:44
Yes, sir.
:18:45
The computing machine is almost foolproof,
Mr MacDonald,
:18:48
yet you managed to miss your total by
a little matter of $11,000 on this one sheet.
:18:53
To what do you attribute that?
:18:55
I, er... I don't know, Mr Waterbury.
:18:58
You know simple arithmetic, don't you?
:19:00
You know the difference between addition,
subtraction and possibly multiplication?
:19:05
Yes, sir. I'm pretty good at it.
:19:08
Have you troubles at home? You
henpecked? Suffering from a broken heart?
:19:12
Had your teeth examined lately?
:19:14
Or are you purely and simply
incapable of doing your work?
:19:17
Well, I... I guess it's the contest,
Mr Waterbury,
:19:21
the Maxford House contest.
:19:23
I had no idea it was hurting my work.
:19:25
- How much is the prize?
- The first prize is $25,000.
:19:29
Yes.
:19:30
I used to think about $25,000 too,
and what I'd do with it.
:19:35
That I'd be a failure
if I didn't get a hold of it.
:19:37
And then one day I realised
I was never going to have $25,000.
:19:44
And then another day a little bit later,
considerably later,
:19:47
I realised something else,
:19:49
something I'm imparting to you now,
Mr MacDonald.
:19:53
I'm not a failure. I'm a success.
:19:56
You see, ambition is all right if it works.
:19:59
But no system could be right where only
half of one per cent were successes