We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.