Tim Buckley has spent much of his career in finance traversing the proverbial energy landscape.
For much of that time since 2010, those travels have taken him to India, where eye-watering sums of money are being spent energising a country trying to lift hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty.
Mr Buckley, although an admirer of India in many ways, says there's an expression that defines key aspects of business on the subcontinent.