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

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.

When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

The best kind of day is a writing day

those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.