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So by 1970, we had seventy-eight partners invested in our company, which really wasn’t one company, but thirty-two different stores owned by a combination of different folks. My family owned the lion’s share of every store,
Sam Walton
Sam Walton and John Huey
And yet the world came close to nuclear war. Each was directing his military to carry on provocative activities—on the Soviet side, making the missiles operational on a crash basis in Cuba and sending submarine patrols in the Caribbean; on the American side, pursuing all preparations for an invasion of Cuba and pressing aggressive low-level aerial reconnaissance over Cuba while harassing Soviet submarines. Each of them was prolonging the crisis day by day while they haggled over the resolution of the conflict, each hoping to achieve better terms than he was prepared, at bottom, to accept. If Khrushchev had not, surprisingly, initiated an abrupt, humiliating withdrawal of his missiles Sunday morning—without even waiting for an official American response to his proposal of Saturday morning, which Kennedy had argued to his advisors was “very reasonable”—there was every likelihood of the fuse to all-out war being lit by that afternoon.
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
What this is really about is listening to your gut and understanding the consequences of not following your intuition. The path is different for everybody. The important thing is to figure out what works for you and what doesn’t. Then do more of the good stuff and less of what turns you off. How very hedonistic, you might say. To that, I’d respond that far too many people these days die with the regret of not having done what they wanted for a career, let alone having lived the life of their dreams. Don’t let this happen to you.
Creative Calling
Chase Jarvis
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