As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.
Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.
I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.
Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.