i don t consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? let me go back to the beginning of golf. i m not a golfer. i took it up when i was nine. i quit when i was 10. jack: i m not one anymore either. david: you are pretty famous in golf. it was too frustrating. why is it that so many people are addicted to something that is so humiliating and frustrating? the ball never goes where it s supposed to go. why are people so addicted to it? jack: that s a pretty good question. pursuit ofr-ending an unattainable goal. david: right. jack: you could trial your want try all you want. nobody has ever mastered the game. it s difficult. it s challenging. it challenges ul whatever level you play. that s why i enjoyed it. no matter how good i got, i can always be better. davi
david: i don t consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? you have a new book called the moment of lift. what does that refer to? the phrase, lift? melinda: i grew up in a family in dallas, texas and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions. it is when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking, it pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. to me, that is the same thing i have seen with 20 years of work to the foundation for women. if we can lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. david: it is the largest foundation in the world. it has assets of how much? melinda: about $50 billion. david: you created the foundation from the wealth created from microsoft, a
the job state was disappointing. the job data was disappointing. pmi came out and of was not great and it was not great. the u.s. economy is showing signs of fatigue. an economic slowdown. trailing data is ok. growth in the states is strong. you have other indicators of people being nervous about trade. a lates difficult in cycle. you are very late cycle. i think we are close to the end and people have recognized. jonathan: joining me around the table. us into have you with studio. the trailing data is ok. what does the outlook look like from your perspective? the trailing data is ok, possibly more than ok depending on what you focus on. the market in general focuses on the negative. i do not see as many headlines that we have had some of the best mortgage application numbers recently. every time we get a slightly weaker avp number, at a time when we get a 50 year low in terms of unemployment, et cetera, the fact that there is a sentiment out there tha
would you fix your tie, please? david: people would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. we will leave it this way. all right. david: i don t consider myself a journalist. nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? you have a new book called the moment of lift. what does that refer to? the phrase, lift? melinda: i grew up in a family in dallas, texas and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions. it is when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking and the rocket rumbling, it pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. to me, that is the same thing i have seen with 20 years of work to the foundation for women. if we can lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. david: it is the largest f
and from cows to coding. we meet the woman with a remarkable career that began on a farm in rural illinois and has taken her all the way to the shining lights of silicon valley. and with polls now open in the uk general election, we promise a politics free programme. so let us know what you make of the stories we re covering today. get in touch in the usual way. use the hashtag #bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. when we say politics free, we do refer to the uk election and not the politicking going on at the moment in the middle east. we start in the gulf state of qatar, where concerns are growing about the economic fallout after neighbouring arab states cut off diplomatic and trade ties over its alleged support of terrorist groups, something doha denies. late wednesday, top credit rating agency standard and poors cut qatar s credit rating, with a warning it could be cut further still. its stock market is down almost 10% in the last three days, and its currency