Top Highlights

• They say that the three most important decisions in life are: 1. What you do. 2. Where you do it. 3. With whom you do it.
• To those three Ws, I’d add a fourth: when—as in when you work and when you don’t. Being in charge of the hours you work and the vacations you take is an important element in the mix that makes up the perfect working lifestyle.
• My working time used to be directed by other people and measured by a time clock.
• I learned, long ago, that if you refuse to help smart people solve their business problems, they solve them perfectly well themselves.
• In determining where you want to work, when you want to work, and what you want to do, no consideration is more important than who you choose to work with. That’s because if you fill your working life with really good people, the problems that usually hamper and plague a business at every stage of its growth will be easy to solve and will eventuall...