“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.