It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.