He's putting in an unbelievable amount of effort.

It was a workmanlike effort by everybody. The wind was bustling around and you couldn't get into your rhythm.

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.

There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.