If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking

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).