From The Burnertip: Goodbye to a Colleague and Friend

“I want to tell you something,” he said to me on many occasions during the quarter-century of our relationship. “As long as I’ve been in this business, I’m still learning because there’s still so much I don’t know.” That was Carol Freedenthal, one of the smartest men I’ve ever known. So smart, in fact, that he was always the first to admit he still had so much to learn about a changing business in an even faster changing world. For someone like me, who would never know a tenth as much about the business as he did, those words taught me a lifelong lesson.