Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
I think that we're just too invested in that myth that we are not connected, and are all potential millionaires if only we put in the work. I think that's destructive and ignores history and is one of the reasons we as a state are consistently at the bottom of all the lists because we handicap ourselves.
Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.
I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.
I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.
Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.
All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires.