I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

我不是商人，我就是生意本身。

我完全不认为我的作品可爱。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.