“You have a nasty little mind I wouldn't put anything past,” he says, which sounds like a compliment in the complacent way he says it, “but the more general 'you' population can't seem to keep track of what they'll be a market for, much less what they're going to have luck selling to anybody else.”

Of course, he isn't a businessman, even if he tends to look like the sort of person who uses 'businessman' as a polite, well-armed euphemism.