This segment, which is focused on the business class and people who don't want to stop three or four times during a flight, promises high margins and is an area airlines want to appeal to.

Roughly one million people are entering the middle class each month and government policies to increase consumption mean this is an ideal time for us to expand in China. The average person living in Beijing can buy four times as much from us as he could when we opened in the capital in 1999.

I think it's going to be one of the biggest middle-class jobs -- collaborators. Collaborators are people who are good at working as part of global knowledge, manufacturing or supply chains.

I think it's an entirely new idea. People were dancing before I came into the nightclub business but I still did something that had never been done before. 50 Gramercy Park North is a new kind of hotel, and not the kind people will be expecting from me. I am hoping to have the same impact with it that I had 20 years ago.

He was part of the class that played so many minutes in our first year. It's now coming back to benefit him. Not very many freshmen play that much.

In the international markets ... the first- and business-class customers are about half the revenue on the airplane. These are customers who for a 12-hour journey are looking for a different experience.