The Banker's Dilemma: Which Came First?

Let's extrapolate the infamous question of which came first? the chicken or the egg? To a more relevant and invaluable scenario to banking:

Which comes first? The models or the bottles?

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Argonaut
Success. Which comes first?

Most likely you...

+1. Epic.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

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