We are occasionally introduced to a gentleman who announces, with extraordinary pride, that he made his fortune entirely himself. We offer our condolences. What, one wonders, were his ancestors doing?
Industriousness is an admirable quality. We insist upon it in our staff. But to spend an entire luncheon describing how hard one works suggests that one has failed to grasp the purpose of luncheon.
Then there is the practice of “networking.” Our families knew one another at their christenings. It seems terribly inconvenient to arrange all of that afterwards, particularly in a room with name badges.
Our advice to the ambitious is simple: choose your ancestors more carefully.
A proper legacy is measured in the things one need never mention: the house, the school, the introduction, the fact that the club secretary already knows which table. If you must explain your standing, we fear you may be standing in the wrong room.
Our advice to the ambitious is simple: choose your ancestors more carefully. We appreciate that this may require some forward planning.
The Partners. We trust that settles it.
An original parody editorial. Complaints concerning one’s ancestors should be addressed to the family.