When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton, a prolific bank robber (pictured, after he retired), is said to have replied: "Because that's where the money is." Sutton reportedly pinched $2m during a lifetime of crime.
The phenomenon has been described as the Wimbledon effect: Britain provides the beautiful arena where foreign champions come and beat the hell out of British players. The annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race is much the same: a slugfest between predominantly non-British mercenaries.
The real money is where the pain is.
The human animal is a beast that must die. If he's got money, he buys and buys and buys everything he can, in the crazy hope one of those thing.
"Corruption is rampant at high levels, and at low levels," said an FBI agent, before adding: "and all levels in between".
Foreign remittances continue to grow. In all, 250m migrant workers will send home $500 billion this year – up from $410 billion in 2012. At their destination savings often end up under the mattress – rather than channelled into microfinance schemes, for instance, as many development experts have long hoped. The marriage between remittances and microfinance has not happened yet.
"Republican gluttons of privilege" who had "stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back".
He spent his entire career within the DeBeers stable.
It takes pride in sticking to its companies through thick and thin.
The distinction between being a successful tycoon and being an enemy of the people has been blurred.
Marriott likes to buy to the sound of cannons and sell to the sound of violins.
40 % of Missourians would oppose a new tax even if it was being used "to construct the landing pad for the second coming of Christ".
Once upon a time the overstressed executive bellowing orders into a telephone, cancelling meetings, staying late at the office and dying of a heart attack was a stereotype of modernity. Cardiac arrest – and, indeed, early death from any cause – is the prerogative of underlings. The best medicine, then, is promotion. Prosper, and live long.
Narcissism index indicators of CEO: prominence of the boss's photo in the annual report, company press releases. Length of his Who is Who entry, frequency of his use of the first singular interviews, ratios of cash compensation to second-highest paid exec.