Red Poling, when I worked for him in Ford of Europe, had a conversation with me once.
He said, 'You are willing to compromise financial discipline, but I won't. To me financial discipline is paramount. It comes above everything else. It comes above creativity, it comes above product. If you lose financial discipline, you've lost everything.' He was such a powerful influence on me that I began to think about it, and I thought, why can't you have both?