David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

one of the most difficult things for
immigrants to wealth, because they don’t
know what to say when having the
excuse of ‘We can’t afford it’ is gone,”
Grubman said. “They don’t want to lie
and say, ‘We don’t have the money,’
because if you have a teenager, the
teenager says, ‘Excuse me. You have a
Porsche, and Mom has a Maserati.’ The
parents have to learn to switch from ‘No
we can’t’ to ‘No we won’t.’”
But “no we won’t,” Grubman said, is
much harder. “No we can’t” is simple.
Sometimes, as a parent, you have to say
it only once or twice. It doesn’t take long
for the child of a middle-class family to
realize that it is pointless to ask for a
pony, because a pony simply can’t