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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jock Ewing Fan" data-source="post: 358722" data-attributes="member: 40536">I think some context is helpful.Business leaders do take risks - whether JR took good ones or not can be debatable.Businessmen will also make decisions for personal rather than logical reasons.JR was in the oil business, and his adversaries were frequently as ruthless as himI would guess that Jock Ewing took some risks as well in building Ewing Oil.Until the Asian wells deal, it appears that JR was doing a good job of making Ewing Oil profitable.Even Miss Ellie acknowledged as much when chiding him - "JR you run Ewing Oil and you do it well but..."I always wondered if JR's more risky decisions arose from trying to compensatefor the lack of approval he perceived from his parentsIn the end, it is the result that the businessman achieves on which the businessman is evaluated.Again, you are correct that JR's decisions may not always have been prudent, butI just wanted to add some other considerations.</blockquote>