 Thank you. Amen. Thank you laws. Thanks you to everybody for being here This afternoon, and I would double up on all the thank-yous that laws has already provided This isn't a very exciting evening for us, and it's a very exciting evening of us in particular because of all the VIPs and all of your VIPs that are that are here that are here In particularly Adam Smith Institute who we've had a relationship with really for years now and Have really helped promote the ideas of iron rand in the UK may really I think our first Our first engagement with another think tank was with the Adam Smith Institute. I don't even remember how many years ago But this evening is really a culmination of something that started and again I don't remember how many years it was but but 12 years ago a dinner in London With laws laws are just ordered 10,000 copies of atlas shrugged with the sexo logo on it and a introduction written by Written at sexo by you know for the bank for the bank customers and blank clients and I Was curious who these people were Who who were so passionate about atlas shrugged that they would want to distribute it all over Europe? And and we ended up meeting Scheduling a dinner and meeting in London and since then I've returned to the sexo bank many times Not always in this beautiful building. I remember other headquarters of the past and it's always It's always been with open arms that I've been received here And it's all it's always been fabulous. So again, thank you Kim and thank you laws for for making Saxo banks so hospitable to the ideas of iron man and really a beacon I think out there in Europe people know People know people who work in all kinds of places Throughout Europe some of them have gotten atlas shrugged in the mail From Saxo Bank and and others have just heard about the influence these ideas have had at Saxo It's also incredibly rewarding for somebody like me who's really been a devotee if you will of iron rams ideas Really from age 16 on and and I've studied it at a variety of different levels over them over the many years To see it applied In a business for business people to take it seriously enough to have it on the walls as law is described You can walk around the offices here and see the the iron rams virtues Illustrated on the wall And for the for for CEOs to be taking these ideas so seriously and apply them in their business We have other examples of this in the United States We have other business leaders here who might be applying it in the same way and every time I meet somebody like that It is really thrilling because not only do I believe strongly that these ideas Can have a profound impact on one's own personal life a profound impact on one's relationships with other people They can have a profound impact on the success of a business and it's it's terrific to be able to Celebrate the success that Saxo has had over the last over the last decade and a half that I've that I've known of it So I know an institute is I know an institute is coming to Europe Why? There's plenty of work to do in the United States. So You know many of my American contributors and American supporters say, what are you doing? And I think it's because of a number of things One is interest seems to be increasing We see it in royalty statements where we see book sales Outside of the United States slowly increasing particularly since 2007 Of both the fiction and the nonfiction which is interesting We see many more invitations many more much more interest particularly among students and I'm really happy that they are representatives here of of SFL, you know the ESFL European students for Liberty We're seeing among students among university students more and more interest in these ideas more and more interest in being exposed To them. So we seem to be sending people here Without an official presence. So there seems to be an interest and then Over the years we've developed some relationships with think tanks Adam Smith Institute the I can't pronounce it in French I'm sorry the liberal Institute in Switzerland and and others and this seems to be genuine support for iron rands ideas and and and for what the Institute in the United States is doing and what we can bring To to Europe now granted the interest in iron rand is not uniform certain parts of Europe are significantly more interested in these ideas than others which is interesting and to be studied But it seems like Eastern Europe maybe because of they were not so distant experiences There's a lot of interest. It certainly seems like northern Europe. There's interest including Scandinavia and of course the UK We're still waiting on you Germans and on you French, but and and Switzerland of course right in the middle there, but So given all the interest given the book sales and and given that That laws has really been, you know supporting and promoting this idea We decided to formalize it to formalize the relationship as many of you know, I've been coming to Europe for many years giving many talks and That has given me a sense that there is a demand for these ideas and We want to now formalize that relationship formalize our commitment to the content at formalize our commitment to What's going on in Europe? as As law says things are things are bad and things are dire and things are kind of slipping away They're slipping away everywhere Which which is interesting and that brings me kind of the second reason to come to Europe and it really to go everywhere We don't know if things if we're gonna be able to change the United States We don't know if we're gonna be able to make a substantial difference in the United States before things kind of slip away We're certainly trying as are many many people We don't know where the next Great laissez-faire revolution is going to happen We don't know where the next great mind is going to be that exposed to these ideas Will be will become a champion for them and help change the world after all we're in the business of trying to change the world and We want to diversify a little bit see what else is out there see who else is interested in these ideas expose millions billions of people to iron rand All over the world and see what kind of response kind of reaction we get I I also believe strongly that Any liberty movement needs iron rand Now I believe that iron rands ideas are true, which is a difference between me and a man and therefore necessary for the philosophical foundation of a free society and for the philosophical foundation of a Happy successful life as an individual so I believe that Europe needs the iron rand Institute the liberal movement needs the iron rand Institute or the needs iron rand Maybe you don't need us in particular, but you need her iron rand does provide a Philosophical foundation for the ideas of freedom and as I look around the world and as many of you know I travel a lot and I see a lot of places and actually Even and I were just in in South America in South America's it's it's it's a little scary to see what's going on in South America in this sense They are countries in South America that did pretty well They they took lessons in economics and they instituted the right policies think Chile and they've done very very well over the last few years and They elect socialists who promise to undo all the things that they did well And there are other countries that we're looking at the world to evaluate which economic political social system to adopt Choose Venezuela I mean, I don't know if you guys know what's going on in Venezuela, but people don't have food They don't have toilet paper. They don't soap they leave in a trailer and come back with suitcases full of soap and toilet paper That's how well they come but this is what people would emulate so My view is that we have all these, you know lessons of what works and what doesn't work We have examples of relatively free countries that are incredibly successful and Unfree countries that are disasters that are failed thoroughly And yet people don't seem to learn from that experience so Something's missing My view is that people's view the world not through economic eyes not even through political eyes, but through moral and philosophical eyes and That's where the real battle for the soul of Civilization is that's where the real battle for the future of liberty is going to be it's going to be a philosophical battle And I think I ran bring some big guns to that battle Some big truth some big ideas some things that can really change people's minds and if we win the Philosophical battle if we win the moral battle then we will have liberty Because the kind of people I ran describes as moral With self-esteem who believe in their own rational self-interest do not want to live in a world where they're told What to do and what not to do what to eat and what not to eat what a drink not to drink They want to live free they want to pursue their happiness to pursue the values that they believe will lead To their happiness they want to exercise their mind in an environment that is free So to achieve freedom we need those ideas we need to challenge conventional morality and yes, I in Rand destroys or ridicules conventional morality and She should in my view she challenges as it and she presents an alternative an alternative that I believe Leads to freedom to happiness to success So it's these ideas these philosophical ideas that we want to expand our reach We want to bring to Europe. We want to bring to the rest of the world with with Europe being You know our next real big step Now how are we gonna do this because that's a big challenge and and they're not a lot of us Objectivists committed objectivists in the world not a lot of us who can who can fight this battle Well, we want to align ourselves with groups that are friendly towards us. We want to we want to Find those groups and work with them to bring iron rands ideas to larger and larger audiences I was traveling through Europe this last week and You know, I think I hit eight talks in six countries With over 800 people attended them In the last few months, we've had two other Intellectuals from the Anne-Ren Institute visit Europe on Carl Garte and Greg Salamiere Who spoke in front of a student audience in the UK at Liberty League and in Berlin for European students for Liberty? And I think they too spoke to significant audiences and young audiences student audiences the kind of audiences we really love We love young people. I have a theory about with the exception of laws and a few other people here So I apologize to all you guys most people Shape the fundamental philosophical ideas when they're young Between age 16 and 30 after age 30. We get busy life happens Right, we family and career and work and it's it's very hard to engage in deep philosophical thought at that point And almost nobody does almost nobody does so if you want to change the world You have to change young people you have to get in front of students So a big push of ours in Europe is going to be to get in front of you to get in front of students To get in front of students in universities to get in front of students when possible in high schools To get these students engage with these ideas and to get them reading the books. And of course this brings us to the major Project if you will for the for I know in Europe is going to be to get the books into the hands of people who will read them and That means translation As much as I'd love if everybody read English That just is not the reality So we need to get the books into a variety of different languages and the beautiful thing here is that Atlas shrugged at least is in most language European languages already and You know, I think the the real breakthrough we had there was that finally after many many years For the first time ever There's a French edition of Alice shrugged, you know the world's changing if France is willing It took an American entrepreneur by the way Who spent a lot of money and his own efforts in order to get it translated? But still the French have a copy have a version so, you know, we can be very optimistic now But in many languages and you have a few there, but there are many more these books are being translated Atlas shrug That's being translated. We're very interested in seeing the nonfiction translated Ironman's philosophical works translated So we would like to see the entire library the entire iron man library in a Variety of different languages all across Europe and I think we will be working with a lot of you and with others To make that happen We also today I think launched Ironman Institute Europe websites in four different languages You know, am I gonna get these right German? French Danish obviously and and Spanish so we now have Basically with the same design and the same look and feel as our English website We now have four our plan is within a couple of years to have these websites and 12 to 15 languages So if your language was not we don't have it yet. It's it's coming And again, we're looking for volunteers We're looking for people to help us achieve that so What we're trying to do with iron and Europe is to bring iron man's ideas into the debate We try we believe those ideas are true and therefore if they did debate they will win out But you can't win if you're not being discussed You can't win if people don't know who you are To get them into the bait we got to get people to read iron and And that's mission number one to get people to read iron man. They have to be in the languages. We're getting there To get people to read the books. We have to be engaged in the conversation We're gonna send people to Europe and they're gonna engage in conversation as we've been for the last few years We'll only be doing more of that not less We're gonna particularly engage as I said with young people so as Annie and laws have said we're looking for people to help We're looking for volunteers to translate. We're looking for your connections into student groups We're looking for opportunities to speak in front of large groups of students or groups of businessmen We're looking to mimic what has been so successful here at SAC so To take the principles of objectivism and apply them to other businesses and where there are opportunities to educate those business leaders In these ideas We're available to help We're looking for financial support from those of you who are interested and are able to do so and if you are Please speak to speak to Annie So Again, thank you all for being here I'm excited about the potential for what we can achieve in Europe. I think it's essential I mean Europe, whether we Americans like it or not and it's mostly or not Europe is the intellectual capital of the world This is where most of the ideas that we debate come from This is where most of the ideas in history have been challenged and engaged with We need to we want to be part of that debate. We want to be part of that discussion we want to be part of Europe and We're here Thank you all for welcoming us. Thank you