When Ajay Banga was contacted about the job of World Bank president, he told them no. So they asked him again. “What part of no didn't you get the first time?” he said. Then the president of the United States rang him. So he said yes.
Banga told this story as part of a wide-ranging and very interesting interview with Nir Bar Dea, CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds.
It was an illuminating discussion. Not least because Banga was on the stage with Bar Dea at all.