He is before everything else a superb man of business, far-seeing, practical, hard-headed, an organiser of victory, a statesman of the human soul.

You cannot speak to him in this practical sphere without feeling that he is a man of the most unusual ability.
He can outline a complicated scheme with a precision and an economy of words which, he makes you feel, is a tribute to your perspicacity rather than a demonstration of his own powers of exposition.

He comes quicker to the point than nine men of business out of ten.

And he sticks to the main point with a tenacity which might be envied by every industrial magnate in the country.
Moreover, when it comes to your turn to speak he listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver of a machine which overcomes his deafness, his whole body leaning half across the table in his eagerness to hear every word you say.
No sentiment shows in his face, no emotion sounds in his voice.

He is pure mind, a practical mind taut with attention.