If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment.

business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.