It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Leadership means making tough decisions today that will blossom into opportunities tomorrow.

The truth is always stranger than fiction.

在商业中，你得到的不是你应得的，而是你谈判得到的。