https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zp-yKeFRTE
Now I consider that I myself I’m a successful man in business. I hate business. I hate everything to do with it; accounting, figuring, adding up numbers, because they’re all arid. They don’t smell of anything – sometimes there’s an interesting smell to the ink on a checkbook – but by and large all this figuring is a completely colourless occupation. I don’t like it, so I have to hand it over to accountants and lawyers and the people who seem to like it. But I don’t know whether they really do?
The essential principle of business of occupation in the world is this: figure out some way in which you get paid for playing.
When I was quite young – I forget the exact age – I made a solemn vow which was that I would never accept a job, I would always be my own employer. And curiously, there are very few roles in life which provide this possibility: the successful artist, writer and sometimes musician, sometimes the independent consultant, can occupy this role – I mean h