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The Key Thing That I Find That When You're Kind Of In Boom Times And You're Hiring Bunches, If You Can Hire, You Know, Always Maintain Very High Standards And Even If You, You Know, Can't Find Enough Of, You Know, What Is Typically Called A Players, Then Don't Hire The People. All Right? So, You Know, Use That As A Way Of Standards.

Good Ideas Need Good Strategy To Realize Their Potential.

It's Nice To Be Happy. But The Meaning Of Life Is Meaning - What's The Impact You're Having On The World. Suffering To Accomplish That Is A Perfectly Fine Thing.

Now, In Economic Crises Times, The Kind Of Things You're Looking At Is It's Generally Harder To Get Capital, Revenue Growth May Be More, Revenue Lines May Be Unstable Or Growth May Be Less Easy To Predict That You're Going To Get To. And So What You Do Is You Take A Certain Conservative Approach Of When, As All Entrepreneurs Should Do, You Plan For Both Good Luck And Bad Luck, You Put Extra Time On, "okay, If I Have Bad Luck, What Do I Do About That?"

Boom And Bust Cycles Are Very Difficult For Businesses Because You're Hiring A Bunch Because You're Planning For The Future. And If The Future Is Going To Be Very Big, You Need To Hire People, Or Suddenly You Go To Boom To Bust, Then All Of A Sudden, You're Kind Of Battening Down The Hatches And Trying To Sail, You Know, Through The Storm, It's A Different Thing. So Part Of It Is Making Good Decisions About, Well, How Long Is A Boom Cycle Going To Be, You Know, Don't Plan On It Going Forever.