People who worry about looking good typically hide what they don't know and hide their weaknesses, so they never learn how to properly deal with them and these weaknesses remain impediments in the future.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.

Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had to agree on how we should be with each other - and that way is unique. Because the logic behind being radically honest and radically transparent with each other wasn't clear, it had to be spelled out in these principles.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.