Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
Some people say if you're picked high you're already on the team, but that's not true. You have to come here and work hard for it and hopefully on opening night, you get to put on the game sweater.
That's been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown!
We did it (Disneyland), in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster, closed and forgotten within the first year.
A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.