"I am not as big a fool as I look, and if you will just go on the assumption that I am not a fool, it would correct a good many news items, " he remarked at one press conference in 1914.
Even Fox was lukewarm, refusing to pay for the show, until Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, already a big Pop Idol fan, told her father he'd be a fool to pass up an American version.
His deal for the company was built around an employee stock-ownership plan that would create big gains for them if Zell later sold to another buyer--a greater fool?