Houston Business Journal had their episode, their issue come out last week, I think it was last week, that was the

HBJ Fast 50, and that is 50 companies that are seeing incredible year over year growth growth is exciting.

You know, politicians talk about jobs.

We're going to create jobs.

They don't know how to create jobs.

Do you know why jobs are created?

Jobs are created because entrepreneurial people need tasks performed

that they themselves cannot perform. Jobs are not created to give people something to do so that families have money or so that people have a place to go so they don't rob you.

That's the byproduct of things getting done, things needing to get done.

Think about when you hire somebody to do something.

You hire them to do it, you're willing to part with your money

to get them to do something you don't want to do, whether that's change your oil or mow your

grass or remove a cyst or a polyp or something you can't do. This is how we transact things. This is how we improve the human condition.

And I find it very, very exhilarating to talk to people with an entrepreneurial spirit that are seeing

success because for every person that's having success in business they've had plenty of

failures along the way and they may still have some failures along the way.

When I read a food review of a new restaurant that's open and they're such exciting,

this is going to be a Houston twist on this, the chances are they're going to be closed in a year.

Doesn't mean they didn't have a lot of interest,

doesn't mean the food was bad, doesn't mean the experience was bad.

It just means that more often than not business fails.

So when someone's having success we should applaud that

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