If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

