You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

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

When women do better, economies do better.

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

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.