The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.