If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul NewmanRead
A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
Interpretation
Winning money feels more rewarding than earning it through work.
This quote highlights the psychological satisfaction derived from winning a dollar compared to the effort of earning one. It suggests that the thrill of victory in winning is not just about the monetary gain, but also about the sense of achievement and luck that comes with it, making it feel more gratifying.
In practice
In a motivational speech about taking risks and seizing opportunities in business.
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kidβs play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if theyβre ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
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