“It takes more energy, resources and time to compete than to create. Wouldn't you rather live the life of ease?”
“The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.”
“When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.”
“You are not inefficient! You have the capacity to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time or resources.”
“That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.”
“Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.”