You can do some kind of planning, but the future is something you'll never be able to predict. If anybody had told me when I was in high school or when I was in college that I would be running a billion-dollar company, I would have told them, You're crazy. First of all, I had no interest in business. No interest, none whatsoever. I never took a course in business.
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