If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.
Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.
From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
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