Цитаты из книги The Deal of a Lifetime

« Большинству из нас так хотелось бы верить, что по каждому сердцу, переставшему биться, тоскуют одинаково. Если нас спросят, все ли жизни одинаково бесценны, большинство убежденно ответит: «Да!». Но это пока нам не укажут на кого-то, кого мы любим, и не спросят: «И эта тоже? »

When five- year- old girls die, no one writes about that, there aren’t any memorials in the evening papers, their feet are still too small, they haven’t had time to make anyone care about their footsteps yet.

Weak people always look at people like me and say, “He’s rich, but is he happy?” As though that was a relevant measure of anything. Happiness is for children and animals, it doesn’t have any biological function. Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without…

« – Мне страшно, – признался я, но она покачала головой: – Не страшно. Тебе горько. Никто вам, людям, не объяснил, что за страх вы принимаете горе. – О чем мы горюем? – О времени. »

You were the girl’s age when you asked what I did. I told you I made money. You said everyone did that. I said, “No, the majority of people just survive, they think their things have a value but nothing does. Things only have a price, based on expectation, and I do business with that. The only thing of value on Earth is…

Every parent will take five minutes in the car outside the house from time to time, just sitting there. Just breathing and gathering the strength to head back inside to all of their responsibilities. The suffocating expectation of being good, coping. Every parent will take ten seconds in the stairwell occasionally, key in…

But the vast majority of successful people don’t become bastards, we were bastards long before. That’s why we’ve been successful.

That’s what fathers do, they sit in front of their sons and tell their son’s stories to a third person rather than letting them speak for themselves.

It’s bloody awful to admit to yourself that you’re not the kind of person you’ve always thought you were.