This is a very important acquisition for ABN because they struggle with growth and, though Italy is not a high-growth market like in Eastern Europe, there is more potential than in the Netherlands and most other countries where ABN is present.

Outside its two major markets, Kingfisher reported very strong growth in Poland (against weak comparatives) and good performances in Italy and China.

They're going to struggle to keep the growth going. The fields they're developing are getting smaller and smaller and they're finding it harder to find giant fields.

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.

Newell will continue to struggle until it can sustain meaningful consolidated revenue growth. We are not sure why the current restructuring will create a meaningfully different result than the last restructuring.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.