We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives. It's not as if there are these big, giant institutions existing between us and the economy. In fact, these institutions have become tissue-thin. There is no mediation anymore. We are the economy; the economy is us.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.