It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
The challenges some European economies have are such that it makes it very difficult for them. You have to go where the growth is.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
If you run a country and want to put it on the global map you don't have so many choices. You can get the Olympics, the World Cup or a Formula One race. And the first two are only every four years - and you have them only once.
If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.
Marketing is an investment, not a cost.
You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic mission of the company - what it does to the suppliers, governments, all your stakeholders.
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.
I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.