The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

Many organizations are now trying to walk under the banner of The Learning Organization, realizing that knowledge is our most important product ... But the only place that I've seen it is in the Army. As one colonel said, "We realized a while ago that it's better to learn than be dead."

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.