The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
