If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.