My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
If you put Canada into $1. 5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.
I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.
Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.