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I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.