As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Spreading an idea is hard work.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.