Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.