The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.
Toronto is my favourite city in the world.
I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.
New York is the last true city.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
Hong Kong is a wonderful city.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!
London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.
We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.
Shanghai is Asia's New York.
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.
Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.
Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.
