“The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.”

“Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. ”

“Socialism is based on the notion that collaboration and sharing are more productive, humane, and moral than competition and privatization.”

“The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.”

“I prefer to interact with people one-on-one. Any more than that, and the dynamic becomes competitive.”

“It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.”