The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.
The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.
I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
There is no such thing as emotional incompatibility. There are only misunderstandings and mistakes which can easily be set right if we have the will to do so.
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark twain
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.
