Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.