Success Quote by Arnold H. Glasow

The joke lands because it’s dressed up in the language of justice. “Fair share” is one of those phrases that signals virtue on contact: it’s the rhetoric of reasonable people, the banner you wave when you don’t want to look greedy. Glasow punctures that halo with four extra words: “and yours.” Suddenly the moral posture collapses into plain acquisition.

As a businessman, Glasow isn’t writing from an ivory tower; he’s needling a familiar negotiating tactic from inside the room. In workplaces, unions, politics, even family inheritances, “fair” often functions less as a principle than as a strategy. It’s a way to claim the high ground while moving the goalposts in your favor. The line implies a zero-sum worldview: if someone is loudly insisting on fairness, check whether they’re actually counting your portion as part of the arithmetic.

The subtext is not that fairness is fake, but that appeals to fairness are frequently selective. People rarely demand a “fair share” when they’re winning; they discover inequity the moment the distribution stops flattering them. That’s why the sentence is built around “some folks”: it doesn’t condemn everyone, it isolates a type - the person who uses moral vocabulary as a crowbar.

It’s also a caution about how “rights talk” can be weaponized. The complaint sounds principled, but the ask is possessive. Glasow’s punchline is a reminder that self-interest is often most effective when it borrows the costume of righteousness.