The world by and large has to be reinvented.

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.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

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

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

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

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