“When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.”

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”

“You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.”

“‎"Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.”

“Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.”

“Paul has no problem with wealth, yet he advocates positions that work against his personal economic interests. He notes that, while advocating the closing of tax loopholes, he has no difficulty taking advantage of those that remain. Fundamentally, Paul represents a middle path, as expressed in the ancient dictum that "men with vision walk in the middle."”

“Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.”

“when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.”

“There have certainly been challenges throughout my career, but instead of looking at them as drawbacks, I look at them as opportunities and blessings.”

“Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking. Faced with problems, trends, events, or situations that appear to constitute a harmonious whole or come packaged as a whole by common sense of the day, the strategic thinker dissects them into their constituent parts. Then, having discovered the significance of these constituents, he reassembles them in a way calculated to maximize his advantage.”