Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Don't go to business school.

In short, industrialism is over.

How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.