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We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

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One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

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All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law s…

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

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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.

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Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

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Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go…

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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.

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

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