I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be able set your strategy.

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.

I grew up in Finance.

The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.