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

All things come down to your personal relationships.

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

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.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.