To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.