Some people have subject matter expertise in one thing. Some people tend to be creative but not reliable, and others are reliable but not creative. Everybody has different dimensions.

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

I'm sure Donald Trump will think that he has the truth, and some journalist is arguing that he has truth, and somebody else is arguing that they have the truth. And in fact it's even worse than that because they're so hell bent on their arguments that they will distort the truth consciously. They'll manipulate the facts to support their arguments because they're so hung up in the fight. That's where the problem is, so we argue all the time.

The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is have a balanced, structured portfolio – a portfolio that does well in different environments…. we don't know that we're going to win. We have to have diversified bets.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.