A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

Countries don't go out of business....The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.