Evan Davis Quotes

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don’t say everything you think. You hold back on some things.

The Germans are clear about what they do – cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do – electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do – they’re the workshop of the world.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it’s often a very good way of clarifying issues.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there’s a ‘made in Germany’ label on it – they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

It’s amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.