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

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.

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

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