NO DOUBTS please. John Elliott doesn't allow them. Doubts are the products of others' fervid fears and imaginings. They are the corrosive sign of weakness, the concession to failure. They are not John Elliott.

"You see, all you're going to do is work on a problem and solve it and create the opportunity out of it," he says. "That's all you can ever do. There's not much point in worrying about things otherwise you become less logical, I think."