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My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

There is an intimacy and trust that is needed between leaders, between their assistants and advisers. Usually, you have the real substance behind closed doors; and the press conferences, you have niceties, nice photo ops.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

I want my clients to trust me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.