A country does not go bankrupt.

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

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.

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

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

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

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

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

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

Information about money is more important than money itself.

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Don't worry about the negative people may say about you. Learn from it and move on.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

A lot depends on the starting point.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

The media is one rather than a series of different entities that are competing against each other.