Before the container, transporting goods was expensive. So expensive that it did not pay to ship many things halfway across the country, much less halfway across the world.

His big insight was that the customer doesn't care how you're shipping the goods. The customer wants to get it from here to there cheap and on time. The customer doesn't care if it goes by air or land or sea.

We can't say no, now we're not going to pay that contractor. We can't undo those. We'd be in breach of contract.

I took off across the parking lot and met Mitch halfway.

I don't know if it's a milestone or not but it's halfway to 500 so I'm getting there.

Those who had no wish to go international, who sought only to serve their local clientele, learned that they had no choice. Like it or not, they were competing globally because the global market was coming to them.