Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.