Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.
As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.
Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.