Football does not stop. Spanish football is proud of its past, but we will look to the future.

You earn the title of favourite when you win. It's not when people say you're a favourite because of past achievements; it's when you show it on the pitch.

The main aim of pre-season is to get ready for the competitive games and go into those in the best possible fashion on group and individual levels.

Real Madrid's history sets the tone for any professional coming to this club: winning consistently under the greatest demands.

Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.