Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
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A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.