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"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."

"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"

"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."

"You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don't have to be as good as everyone else if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."

"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."
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"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."


"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."


"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."


"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."


"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."


"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."


"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."


"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
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