Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.
My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.
You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.
Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.
