”I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don’t get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. I grew up in a family of ten kids — first one to go to college — and I’ve earned my success. I’ve earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so. And by attacking me, is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. You know, it’s the old, I think Ted and Fred and I would both sort of take the old Ethel Merman approach to life: “I’ve tried poor and I’ve tried rich and I like rich better.” Doesn’t mean that I’m a bad guy. I didn’t go into business to create a public policy success for either party — Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs, to create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that’s what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because, you know, Warren Buffett says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay his secretary more and she’ll pay more.

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television (via talkstraight)

Robert Johnson is my hero for the day.