The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard