We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.

If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

One only hope my heart can cheer, - The hope to meet again.

My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.