Washington is uniquely positioned in the U.S., frankly in the world, to do this well.

You can get a company to revenues in your lifetime. And you can get a company to profitable revenues on $20 million to $30 million in capital, not $100 million.

People looked around and said there's got to be a better party than this one.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

No other Australian retailer ever has decided to take on the world. We're going to take on the world.