> “An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”

On the JR line in Tokyo, standing with a friend who motions to me with his glance to a salaryman standing next to us. "Hand-stitched suit", my friend whispers. Which is when I notices this guy's "threads" (literally).

Perhaps not Warren Buffett, but no doubt an executive of some stature riding with the rest of us plebes.