Life is growth. You grow or you die.
Each of us found pleasure, whenever possible, in focusing on one small task. One task, we often said, clears the mind.
He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to---equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.
People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves. Belief, I decided. Belief is irresistible.
Yes, the human body needs blood. It needs to manufacture red and white cells and platelets and redistribute them evenly, smoothly, to all the right places, on time, or else. But that day-to-day business of the human body isn't our mission as human beings. It's a basic process that enables our higher aims, and life always strives to transcend the basic processes of living---and at some point in the late 1970s, I did, too.
When it came rolling in, the money affected us all. Not much, and not for long, because non of us was ever driven by money. But that's the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it.
I'd tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling.
And those who urge entrepreneurs to never give up? Charlatans. Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn't mean stopping. don't ever stop.
I was on the verge of losing it, right on the verge. Then I saw that Johnson and Woodell were already losing it, and I realized that I couldn't afford to. Like Penny, they beat me to the panic attack punch.
Supply and demand is always the root problem in business. It's hard enough to invent and manufacture and market and product, but then the logistics, the mechanics, the hydraulics of getting it to the people who want it, when they want it---this is how companies die, how ulcers are born.
When you see only problems, you're not seeing clearly.
Life is growth. You grow or you die.