Marc Rowan

This would be Monday.

He'd be like, Tuesday.

So the immediacy of how you dealt with problems and the business-first mentality was definitely a Mike-ism.

And I sat on the trading desk, and at the end of every trading day, Mike would walk by my desk, and I was supposed to have all the answers, because Mike was doing a million things.

I was just doing one thing.

And every day, he would ask me a question that I did not know the answer to.

And he didn't do it to provoke me or to show me how smart he was.

He was showing me to connect the dots.

And I do think that that's a big part of what goes on in our world today.

Can you take what's happening geopolitically?

Can you take what's happening in technology?

Can you take what's happening in financial markets?

Can you take all the personalities and people and can you put it together?

in a coherent way that makes for good relationships, good deals, good partnerships, things that benefit the world.

And I think that's the primary lesson I took down, along with the pithiest thing is sometimes the most valuable.

And the thing that he said is, you either accept change or change is visited upon you.

And we're certainly in that moment where you either accept change or change is going to be visited upon you.

Totally.

Think Lehman Brothers 2008, because a lot of this audience will not know what was going on in 1990.

But 1990 was a global recession, a banking crisis, a Texas real estate crisis, a New York real estate crisis, a savings and loan crisis.