It seemed that Dexter always lucked out. Any other businessmen would end with financial disaster in the ventures similar to his. It all was just pure luck. Judge for yourself. Some people gave Timothy a bad advice trying to ruin him completely. They advised him to send his ships to sell coal in English city of Newcastle, that had rich coal mines of its own! And he did accordingly and amassed a fortune after his cargo arrived during a miners' strike which had crippled local production. Thus, a popular English idiom "Selling coal to Newcastle" was born.
Any venture that Timothy undertook would bring him unimaginable profits. He would come out with huge money each time when, for example he sold bibles to India or stray cats to Caribbean islands. Once by mistake he stored a lot of whalebone and still got huge profits by selling it as the support material for female corsets.
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