And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

My work is my understanding of life.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

No pain, no gain. That's my life motto.