Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
Your past is not your potential.
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.
All you have to do is be able to feel.