He sounds bitter. (Like Scrooge McDuck)
He sounds like, thanks to his own choices, his entire life is made up of pivotal points. Points where anyone, including him, was more at the mercy of fate and not his “personal drive, personal ambition, self-discipline, self reliance, and a determination” as his ego filled letter relates. We are supposed to be impressed by this? Granted, the new pump was impressive
So someone makes the same choice as him and puts the same “personal drive, personal ambition, self-discipline, self reliance, and a determination” but the weather goes bad, or a bad customer or equipment failure exceeds his remaining money and he says that makes him better than them?
He is a gloating angry man who created every single situation he put himself in and thinks that because of that it is his right to denounce the ways and means of others. NO one will ever work as hard as he had to or does. No If he had 100’s of employees hired and fired because of the problems he listed then it only speaks to how bad he is as a manager and a businessman.
He can bite me.