The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.