Recovering academic and aspiring salesperson. In the effort of "staying on brand," I feel it more effective to provide some of my favorite quotes as a means of getting to know me:"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life"-F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)"Wealth is a slave to a wise man and the master of a fool"-Seneca"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope"-Epictetus"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"-Friedrich Nietzsche "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire"-Epictetus"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust"-Sun Tzu"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape"-Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has"-Margaret Mead