Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

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.

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.

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?

Dan explains the trip’s itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

I think I can bring tremendous leadership.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.