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“Avoid getting into the business of manufacturing trombone oil”

You may become the greatest trombone-oil manufacturer in the world, but in the end, the world consumes a few quarts of trombone oil a year.

Don’t invest in projects that would sap the resources of your company and you.

-The Ride of a Lifetime, p.61

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