There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.