“The world is big, but industries are small.

After a few years, everyone comes to know the quality of your work.

Reputation matters.”

French writer and poet Rene Daumal reminds us that it's not about what we achieve, but who we become in the process:

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”