The underlying profitability of the business has been adversely affected by increasing mine costs and increasing borrowing costs.

When we borrow from a bank to execute our ventures,it simply means we are indirectly inviting the banks to become shareholders of our ventures,which means our ventures can't succeed without their money,so we should be glad to pay back.

Strongest growth has been in business with private individuals, partly by increased borrowing for house purchases and increased interest in savings products.

If a business has 60 percent of its employees who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? If schools have a lot of children who are sick, how are they going to keep operating? Are they going to have to close? Are their children going to have to be at home?

Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.

I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the Grand Canal. That was truly Wagnerian.