The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

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.

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.

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

The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it's one of the easiest sons to commit while convincing oneself that he is being faithful.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Stories are medicine.

To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.