“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.”
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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.
Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.