I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
I've gotten a lot of comfort from the philosophy of the Roman Stoics. For me, one of the most powerful ideas of Stoicism is that you can't pick or choose in the world what you want to happen and what you don't want to happen, and that actually if you did get to choose, the version you would come up with would be unsociable, lame, and basically less beautiful than the truth.
Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.