I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.
If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
‘Selfie’ is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela’s funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
Davos is probably the world’s most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don’t be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.
People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.
The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what’s happened and by the facts and the events.
Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline – it’s been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.
New Zealand’s economy may be more immune… from the waves of disruption elsewhere, but I guarantee you, it’s not that immune.
I passionately believe if you put on an act, the audience will be able to tell. That does not mean that I am going to be talking in top volume all the time in private conversations… Clearly, broadcasting has to be an extension of yourself; it’s an exaggerated version of you.
If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?
There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on their mind, ‘Do you mind if I take a quick selfie?’
The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.
Markets don’t like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.
I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.
Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don’t pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.
The fundamental rule of the business traveller must be nothing must stop you from getting there.
I’m not going to be one of those interviewers that forensically destroys someone.
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