The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

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.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

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 traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.