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The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.


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What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

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No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.



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I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.



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I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.



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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.



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Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.



I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.





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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.




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