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“The mythical man month is a mythical man month for the reason. Ten years ago, if I had five founders show up and they ask for a billion dollars and I gave it to them, what would happen? Sits there. Or they would detonate ... this comes from I think Fred Brooks, right? And like the seventies”

“With a colleague, I wrote a book about the Chrysler Corporation, but more importantly, the person who turned around Chrysler at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, and a man who was, for a time, the best known business figure in America ... a gentleman called Lee Ayacoka”

“Bill Deeds very kindly responded to a letter that I'd written to him applying for a job at the Daily Telegraph. He gave me half an hour in his office in Fleet Street and I remember it. It was in the winter, it was raining, and I asked him for advice and he told me that what he had wished he had done as a young man was go to America. And he encouraged me to move to America. I think that really helped propel me in this direction. So when you arrived here, what was the first big break or ”

“And God and Gold, one of my books I say that you could sum up the last three hundred years of modern history in ten letters, UP United Provinces”

“Special Providence came out right around the time of nine one one. And people of that time weren't really aware that there was anything but Hamilton and Wilson”

“John is also the author of The Dow of Fundraising. This conversation is really a guide on how to raise money from someone who has done it at the highest level”

“If you read like Pride and Prejudice. They're talking about how wealthy all the men are. Mr. Darcy is discussed as getting ten thousand pounds a year from his estate”