Frankly, I am truly hoping for the success of everyone here, including you and, yes, including Floyd. Because of my investment here, albeit a lottery ticket, I also hope to profit in the end.
I also, by reason of my personal experiences, have the greatest admiration for those who create opportunities in business that extends beyond themselves. We need a lot more people of creative talent like that in America.
My sentiment can be summed up in the following quote:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
? Theodore Roosevelt
Perhaps I was amiss in the way I ventured my thoughts towards you, as I have nothing in personal against you, and I also for the moment am down. In general, unfortunately, I have also acquired a bit of shortness for those who wish to be only critical. The Yahoo article on Chaparral and what they are doing with CO2/EOR was a nice find. I am also hoping that PEII can, through their acquisition into Bakken, emerge as a larger player in the CO2/EOR field of endeavor. We shall see.
AI
