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The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda. Sepp Blatter

History Game Wealth Hidden Some Football Individuals Source Happened Interest Little Agenda Means Who Serving

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it. Sepp Blatter

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Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football. Sepp Blatter

Racism Kind Football Discrimination Any Place

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism. Sepp Blatter

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We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors. Sergio Ermotti

Business Other Both Investors Acceptable Clients Model Sustainable Stakeholders Business Model

If I have to tell you what was and is my mission, I think UBS can be the Apple or IBM of the banking industry: companies that went from being admired to severe difficulties and to being back stronger than before. Sergio Ermotti

You Stronger Before Think Difficulties Back Severe Tell Admired Mission Industry Than Banking Being Companies Apple

Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps. Sergio Ermotti

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If we call ourselves the preeminent wealth management firm globally, then it would be impossible not to be a strong player in the biggest market in the world, the Americas. Sergio Ermotti

Management World Strong Wealth Impossible Market Ourselves Would Would-Be Firm Call Globally Biggest Then Americas Player

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing. Sergio Ermotti

You Employees Everybody Right Thing Rating Shareholders Know Clients Get Did The Right Thing Agencies Then Your Right Thing Start Competitors

Every bank has to find its own DNA. Sergio Ermotti

Own Every Find Bank

In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero - no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls. Sergio Ermotti

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I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end. Sergio Ermotti

Back Battleground Totally End Office Front Banking Convinced

Many businesses in an investment bank, not only at UBS, are structurally a loss leader, so they don't pay for the cost of capital. Sergio Ermotti

Leader Pay Cost Only Investment Loss Bank Capital Businesses Many

I'm afraid Eddie the Eagle was before my time. All I know is that his glasses were three times thicker than mine, but I can jump three times further than he did. Simon Ammann

Time Glasses Three Before Mine Further My Time He Know Eddie Were His Jump Times Than Did Afraid Thicker Eagle

With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are. Sophie Hunger

You World Otherwise More Songs Exist Than Actually

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. Sophie Hunger

Music Honesty Something Trivial Simply Also Orchestration

I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country. Sophie Hunger

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again. Sophie Hunger

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At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists. Sophie Hunger

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I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic. Sophie Hunger

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I love such an intense lifestyle. I feel bad otherwise. Sophie Hunger

Love Otherwise Bad Lifestyle Feel Intense

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