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I’ve told the story of Nate and me to young coaches. It’s funny. It’s entertaining. Everybody gets a kick out of it. Two guys in a basement, pizza boxes strewn all over, imagining game scenarios while scribbling all over whiteboards. It’s the hoops version of that movie A Beautiful Mind. But instead of brilliant mathematical equations, we’re drawing up sideline out-of-bounds plays. But here’s the thing. When I talk about how we made a spreadsheet of all the stuff we put on the dry-erase boards, I get asked by young coaches: Can we have that? They want the work product without doing the work. And I say, no, you’re missing the whole damn point. You have to do it yourself.
Rapture
Nick Nurse and Phil Jackson
There is a kind of Don Juan—like quality to reading manuscripts–the next one, or the one after, might be the love of one’s life—but editing them is a slow, painstaking effort to patch up and make presentable what has already been botched and fudged. It is possible to spend hours unraveling someone else’s prose or trying to decide what he or she was trying to say and finding some way to make the words express it without starting from scratch in one’s own words. In editing, time becomes meaningless. A single page can sometimes absorb hours, like the most infuriating kind of puzzle. For most editors, there is no time to edit in the office, where they are caught up dealing with the problems of real live authors, talking to agents, being called to meetings, or trying to explain to the marketing people or the business people or the publicity people just what this or that book is about and why it’s important to buy it or print fifty thousand copies of it or reject it. This in turn means that editors do most of their serious work at night and over the weekends and explains why so many of the better ones eventually become publishers,
Another Life
Michael Korda
And your customer deserves the best price you can get. Don’t ever feel sorry for a vendor. He knows what he can sell for, and we want his bottom price.’ “And that’s what we did, and what Wal-Mart still does. We would tell the vendors, ‘Don’t leave in any room for a kickback because we don’t do that here. And we don’t want your advertising program or
Sam Walton
Sam Walton and John Huey
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