“Don’t try to be smarter than the problem. In the 1920’s, United Fruit and Cumayel Fruit were trying to acquire the same fertile property for bananas that straddled the border of Honduras and Guatemala. The land seemed to have two rightful owners, one in each country. While United Fruit hired lawyers and planned to spend years commissioning studies, Cumayel simply purchased the land twice, once from each owner. Sam Zemurray