It’s not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.
If you’re not making some mistakes, it probably means you’re not trying hard enough.
There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It’s complicated, but if the population doesn’t save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn’t export as much, it won’t manufacture enough.
Personally, I’d like us to have a few more women on the ‘Today’ programme.
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it’s often a very good way of clarifying issues.
Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: ‘Are house prices going to go down?’ and ‘Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?’