The only difference was, if I screwed up, I still got to go home each night.

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And until he looks the loss right in the eye and says I screwed up, he's not going to be a factor again.

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So when I screwed up, the consequences weren't as high as when kids on the South Side screw up. (Applause.) So I had more of a safety net.

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Those are great teaching moments when the CEO is standing in front of you and saying, 'here's a great example of someplace I screwed this up.

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"We screwed up and for that I take full responsibility, " he said.

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But man, back then I was convinced I was the only kid who was screwed up enough to be drawing pictures and playing Tiddly Winks with a nimrod who had elbow patches on his corduroy sport coat.

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Simply put: fail to plan, plan to fail , and I say that as a consultant who has personally screwed up a ballot petition.

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Knowing nothing to the contrary, I have to go with Hastings: they just screwed up.

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