As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

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.

You ought to endure eagerly every situation with hope.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Competition is for the competent.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.