A global world needs global firewalls.

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.

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.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

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

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.