If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.