Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

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

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.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.