The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.