'The New York Times' thing. . . I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
Strengthen your strengths and hire your weaknesses.
Successful people see an opportunity and they GO for it. They play bigger and go deeper into the circles of success. They don't hold back.
Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.
Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.
I grew up on you have to work hard for money, you have to work hard for money. And so I replaced that with, money comes easily and frequently.
Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
We negotiated the construction of a gas pipeline system along the bottom of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. We signed certain treaties of a technical nature, contracts for laying the gas pipeline. And then Bulgaria created such conditions that the project's implementation became impossible, which was obviously against its own national interests. The former Bulgarian leadership was, in fact, aware of that and acknowledged it. But we trusted them when we were launching that project. We sustained losses amounting to millions, several million dollars. We would not want to get into such situations.
Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.