Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.