Don Galer retired as CFO of Snoqualmie Valley Hospital after a twenty year career in start up companies. One of those companies was Compendium Marketing and Publishing in Seattle Washington, the publisher of many works on quotations from all kinds of sources. One of those sources was its own employees. Virtually all of the quotations attributed to Don Galer originated in these publications. They are the product of working with people committed to their own ideas in that exciting space between concepts and realities and trying to reduce that experience to a few words that people will remember.