I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build.
Creating Value
Brad Kelley, Who sold his discount tabacco empire for $1B in 2001
Mr. Kelley doesn’t smoke. ‘I never defended it’ he says of his old business. ‘hopefully someday it will be phased out of society.’
Dallas Cowboys, Jones just monetized value created
Not creating value
Sam Rothafel
Chen Dandan, On building Shanghai
Chen Dandan spends his days suspended hundreds of feet above downtown Shanghai, building one of the city’s newest skyscrapers. What gives the 26-year-old migrant
Old standards at Goldman/Weinberg
Goldman would not back gambling companies, because they were thought to provide no benefit to society.
David Granger, Editor of Esquire
We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual accomplishment – it amazes me that private enterprise
Rogan Gregory, On jeans that fall apart
‘One thing happened that I thought was funny.’ says Rogan. ‘I made a run of a hundred jeans and I made them as perfectly
Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.