Who thinks Sean Quinn is a great businessman now?

To clarify on some points i have read.

RTE did not make this documentary, they purchased the right to broadcast it from the production company who made it. It was not made by RTE. This documentary will no doubt be sold to other global TV networks, worldwide. It is worth noting that, as sometimes people incorrectly fuse any production motivations. It is entirely possible that it is part of an agenda, but more likely just an interesting story for anyone interested.

Entrepreneurs are bull headed and take risks. They rarely perceive themselves in a negative way. They manage to dissasociate themselves from any failures, particularly financial losses. When they win they pat their own backs and raise a glass to all involved. When they lose, they blame the concept, or the strategy, or the lack of funds, or the consumer appetite, or government intervention, or the law, or the timing of their idea, or the external market, or their resources, human or otherwise.

They blame everything but themselves.

The concept that he was naive or lacked the kudos to play the international markets is easily the most condescending. He started throwing sheckels at the ISE a good 20 years before CFD's. He knew very well how to turn a few pence into pounds. He had the FT delivered from Enniskillen everyday, he knew the craic. His brokers did the rest. I can see him gazing out the fhuinneog, hand on bollocks and the other cupping a mobile, buying shares from some dude in Dublin with a tight lip who he knew a long time, for sure.

I actually can empathise with the man, losing your cojones is no joke. I knew a sound lad who lost 7 figures and will never see it again. I asked him what he did when he realised he was phucked..... he said he went up to bed and assumed the fetal position stark naked and sucked his thumb staring at the same corner of his bedside locker for almost 36 hours. He cried without crying, tears poured from his eyes, he shivered but made little noise. It reminded him of pre birth, he hoped he might just wake up and get another chance.

It gets overlooked how that business originally grew, just follow the money and the answer is glaringly obvious. He never threw that toy from the pram either. Without handy access to moola it is very very difficult to start a business, fact, those who say they know don't, those who say they don't know.... do. Put it this way, if he really started from scratch, surely he would know how to do it again, you can't keep a good man down. How come the rest of the tigers are back in the hunt and he is left crying out the window?

His words about Kevin Lunney at the end were chilling ( even he had no involvement? )

He should never have gotten involved in financial markets to anything close to the degree he did , he was zealous in terms of being hands on about every aspect of his business interests, he had no way of controlling short sellers in New York etc who smelled blood in the water re_ Anglo