I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan. ' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money. ' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.
Joan Rivers
Life is very tough, you know. You sit at a dinner party and talk to the person on your right or your left, you're going to hear something terribly sad, or horrible, or awful. And you just laugh at everything. I think it was Winston Churchill who said something like, any time you get someone to laugh, you're giving them a little vacation. It's so true. You laugh for one second, you're happy. I find in negotiations, everybody's sitting around looking so serious, I say something funny and it breaks the ice. And it's like, now we can get through this.
