If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

You're going to have twenty years as host of the 'Today Show,' and eighteen of those years are going to be so unbelievably fantastic that you're going to think you're living in a fantasy world. And one or two of those years is going to be incredibly frustrating and challenging.

Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.

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