Life is trouble; only death is not. Loosen your belt, Boss, and go out and look for trouble!" This advice was given by Nikos Kazantsakis through the fictional lips of Zorba the Greek. In today's Softspeak, Zorba would have talked about challenges rather troubles, and he would have advised his boss to roll up his sleeves instead of unbuckling his pants. But his advice would have been quite superfluous if he'd been talking to the Boss that we knew, because Larry Velie lived his life looking for every kind of challenge, from making executive decisions to doing the dirty work.
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