If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
My architecture is the architecture of survival.
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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