It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist! Robin Leach More Quotes by Robin Leach More Quotes From Robin Leach In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. Robin Leach wine add food I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things. Robin Leach grows moving Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown. Robin Leach lifestyle poor watches The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest. Robin Leach finding-yourself charity giving It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. Robin Leach finance money people People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day. Robin Leach queens kings dream Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. Robin Leach bangkok persons travel It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same then as America is today, getting ready to redistribute social wealth and it didn't work. You've seen that in places like Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland where the entire country's business has collapsed, gone bankrupt. That's where America is heading. Robin Leach iceland country america Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true. 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That's wrong. Robin Leach why-not pay people The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work. Robin Leach rewards interest You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working. Robin Leach rewards want people It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation. Robin Leach block hard-work fall The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system. Robin Leach path america I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one. Robin Leach hard-work taken heart When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer. Robin Leach train-of-thought people thinking Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. Robin Leach weekend wine land Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are. Robin Leach rich people thinking
