So welcome to the Money Mears podcast. I believe the two most powerful words in business are just ask.

I think infrastructure is almost the perfect institutional asset class. The only way to be uniquely

successful is do things that nobody else is doing and have them turn out well. It's the pioneers

who get the arrows. The greatest tragedy of individuals is confidently thinking they're right,

without stress testing, they're thinking with the smartest people.

There's a difference between an ambition and a policy.

And ambitions are very easy to have.

Policies are very difficult to devise.

We struck the oil in 69, the day before Christmas Eve.

On the last attempt, bang, found the oil.

Most people don't realize that pretty much everything they touch, feel,

and riding and comes out of the ground.

You need to have a business model where you say,

how do I compete on a global platform?

The London Stock Exchange is the most international capital market in the world by far.

We're at the London Stock Exchange Group's headquarters here in their offices.

We're currently building 500 data centers around the world.

We're bringing online nuclear reactors now.

AI is going to be huge, but so is the rest of the economy, and it's priced as if it's being

left for dead.

But if you don't get the big ideas right, everything else is building on a shaky foundation.

Many people in this industry, Simon, you know, are prepared to make money with someone else's

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