Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

If you can trust God and yourself, anything is possible.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.

There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it’s best not to say anything.

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.