Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

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

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.