A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

What came first the chicken or the dickhead?

There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.