Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

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

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

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

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.