Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others.

Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.