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It's just the faux-inspirational tone of it that annoys people. Especially Brits, they hate that sort of thing.

It's always something like "I hired a guy nobody else wanted, and to everyone's surprise they worked hard and prospered."

Or "A guy made a bad mistake, but I didn't fire them because now I'd paid x millions for his education."



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