What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

When you do kind and thoughtful things that you don't have to do, you automatically raise yourself to the next level.

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.