When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security. . . or every loan they made?
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.
I think most people act in their self-interest.
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
We have places in America that really have been just forgotten.