ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES
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Review
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• WHOLE EARTH
• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT THE DISC
• Genesis and Purpose
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One of the main things that drove me into business was ignorance.
A liberally educated young man, I hadn’t the faintest how the world worked. Bargaining, distribution, mark-up, profit, bankruptcy, lease, invoice, fiscal year, inventory — they were all a mystery to me and were usually depicted as sordid. That was then; tastes have changed, perhaps too far the other way. At the time, in fact, finances were not particularly on my mind. How To Make Money was not the design problem. (I’d heard and bought Ken Kesey’s advice that you don’t make money by making money: you have that in mind early on, but then you forget it and concentrate entirely on good product; the money comes to pass. Michael Phillips later stated it: Do what you love; the money will come.) The problem was How to Generate a Low-Maintenance, High-Yield, Self-Sustaining, Critical Information Service.
