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Jim Koch: The biggest risks are dangerous but not actually scary
“And it's the difference in life between things that are scary and things that are dangerous. And there are plenty of things that are scary but aren't dangerous. And there are things that are dangerous, but not scary. And those are the things that get you.”
Koch: Staying at BCG was dangerous because of career regret risk
“And in my situation, staying at BCG was dangerous, but not scary. And the danger there, the risk of it was continuing to do something that didn't make me happy, and getting to, you know, 65, and looking back and go, oh my god, I wasted my life. That is risk. T…”
Koch: If you wouldn't do a job forever, don't do it tomorrow
“Well, if I don't want to do it for the rest of my life, I probably don't want to do it tomorrow.”
Jim Koch chose his 23-year-old secretary to co-found Boston Beer Company
“She was my secretary. So it was just me and Rhonda. She was 23 years old. No college degree. Bartended at night.”
Koch recruited his 23-year-old BCG secretary to co-found Boston Beer
“But then I realized, wait a minute, there is a person here who is energetic, talented, resourceful, Great people person. Has all the skills that I don't really have. She was my secretary. So it was just me and Rhonda. She was 23 years old. No college degree. B…”