To avoid having their shares sold off, these tycoons, who were such able stock market operators when the economy was sound, had to devote their firm's entire resources to defending their share price. This made it difficult to employ their capital effectively--they lived and died with the market.
為了避免股票遭到斷頭，當初以炒股為能事的企業主，最後反落得必須集全企業集團之力去護盤，導致資金調度失靈，可謂成也股市，敗也股市。