FEATURE
NUMBER Warren Ackley, the listener
Find the yin to your yang. Opposites attract and prosper. Warren: "Randy gave me a sign one day that he picked up in Mexico. It says, 'Dream it. Plan it. Do it.' And I know he thinks he does the first two and that I'm supposed to 'do it,' which is fine with me." Randy: "That's why he finishes up so well. You see, that's where the details of an idea come from. You have to have the other guy who's going, 'We can do this. We can do that.' Ideas and concepts are hard to come up with. "All of a sudden, you can tell when
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it starts to flow because he's on his phone doing research. And then I know that's the idea. Because that's what motivated him and it will motivate everybody else. "That truly is so damn fun. If I could do that until I was 90, that's what I would do every day, is have those conversations and those ideas." Warren: "When he's doing that, it's kind of like fishing. He's just throwing out all the bait he can find, and I'll latch on to something and think, 'I think we can do this.'"