Please send me a bill for your services through”—he looked at his watch—“through today,” he said. “And you’ll pay it with a rubber check,” I said.

don't worry about your failures, you still alive and you still in the game and when you still in the game, you can still win the game

Wealth is a person’s ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?

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