More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
In all my years in business I can recall very few people I have wanted to fire for making mistakes.
Theodore Roosevelt·1904The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Herodotus·-440 ADIt is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Theodore Roosevelt·1899Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
