twenty-seven years and one million words
Today I did get the call I was expecting from Keane. In fact I got a bunch. In the end, it was decided that I'd get a call from two people at the client, Morgan Stanley.
It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row