Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.