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.

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.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

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

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

China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.