In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
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.
Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
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