"Yes - I am a sociopath"

"You ask me would I 'pass kittens through a mincing machine and barbecue my own children' if I thought it would help me get along in business?

"Absolutely!"

"After all, what you have to consider is that children and kittens are perishable, anyhow. Especially children. To get along in business - to get along in life, in fact - you must be ruthless, smashing every obstacle that lies between you and your goal, taking no hostages - be they kittens, your children or your rivals. Hostages, are baggage. And not Louis Vuitton, darling. Bump them off and bury them at the bottom of the garden - that's my motto. Just don't let anyone know."

"For me, as an alpha-female of world-historical proportions, it's not only about winning the game - for business is a game - it's about winning it and positively humiliating the opposition in the process. I wouldn't be satisfied with just being crowned victor. I want to win, ruin everyone's life into the process, and then have them scrabble around on all fours as I throw them scraps of dog food from my throne."

Interviewer: "It sounds almost as if you consider business solely as a vehicle for your own egotistic aggrandisement and not as something to provide services or products to people."

"Nonsense. Of course, at the most basic level - the level of understanding of your proles, Northerners, Mavises and the like - business is that rather mundane, dreary process of providing products and services. What all business leaders of any notable success share, however, is an implacable desire to crush everything around them into submission and metaphorically pee on everyone from a great height. Or literally pee on them from a great height, for that matter. Although, I don't go in for that kind of stuff myself. Any more."