I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.
I recognized that I was a nobody in San Antonio, but working for the Trumps would be everything.
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
When you'd get a note from someone, the government, it meant something was wrong. This was the way it was. Just goes to show you the way that being a chef has changed, you know - being on the bottom of the social scale and now being what we are, it's incredible, it's terrific.
Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
I went from a nobody to a somebody.
I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.
Being the new guy, you're gonna dress your best every day. When you're the cool guy, you gonna be like, 'Ah, I'm the cool guy anyway. I don't need to dress like that.'
I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.
Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.
I don't drive Yugo anymore, I drive Porsche.
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.
At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
