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Monday morning memo

03.29.2021 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

One morning last week I got an email from a longtime correspondent and sometime customer. In its entirety:

Subject line: You work so hard.

Body copy: I respect that so much.

I tried to tell her how much it meant to me.

When I agonized over borrowing money to buy my company, a friend of mine said, “Being your own boss is worth a lot of money.”

And he was right.

I’ve never for a fleeting second regretted owning a company. Running this organization—and doing so with the gems I work with—has always felt like my very destiny. Or this rather pronounced part of my destiny, anyhow.

But there are very occasional moments—though they were a little more prevalent than usual during this year, I admit—when I became conscious of vaguely wishing I did have a boss, to just tell me what a hard worker I am, and what a conscientious guy—and to give me a gold star for my forehead.

So thanks, Elizabeth.

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