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Successful companies hire people.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.