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.

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

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.

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.

The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

It's always exciting for me to perform.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

If I'm going to give up the single life, it better be good - because I'm having fun!

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.