I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work – that’s clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it’s very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs

A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities

If you get knocked down setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you  keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.