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Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

I'm building a large company.

If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.