We will have to learn, as I have had to, how to sell and price ourselves, how to arrange our own learning and development, and how to balance our lives. There are no schools for this yet, only hard experience and the lessons from those who have gone before."

• Charles Handy

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"When the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective... the most important event these historians will see is not technology, it is not the Internet, it is not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time -- and I mean that literally -- substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And we are totally unprepared for it."

• Peter Drucker

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"Rather than being managed by the organization you join, you manage its contribution to your career."

• Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, in Blur

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"Centuries ago, scholars speculated that we use the word "capitalist" (from the Latin word for head) because the head is the place where we hold the tools with which we create capital... The genius of the West was to have created a system that allowed people to grasp with the mind values that human eyes could never see and to manipulate things that hands could never touch..."

"Capital, like energy, is a dormant value. Bringing it to life requires going beyond looking at our assets as they are to actively thinking about them as they could be. It requires a process for fixing an asset's economic potential into a form that can be used to initiate additional production."

• Hernando de Soto

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"Heretofore, man has been prone to think of his last will and testament as applicable only to his material possessions. He has forgotten himself, that is, his potential estate... Generally speaking, his own life value comprises probably 90 percent (in dollar valuation) of all that he owns, while his material possessions probably comprise 10 percent. Yet he thinks fondly of his 'personal estate' and forgets the 'person' in that estate...."

• S.S. Huebner & Kenneth Black, Jr. 1969

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"What you can do with things increases infinitely when you focus your thinking on their potential."

• Aristotle

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"In light of all this, here's what I want you to do. While I'm locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk -- better yet, run! -- on the road God called you to travel. I don't want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don't want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline -- not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love."

• St. Paul, Ephesians 4:1-3 (The Message Version)

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"Most entrepreneurs have a reasonable anecdotal understanding of their core value creating abilities. But they have never stopped to get specific nor attempted to define the intangible capacities that underlie these abilities so that they can be managed and leveraged in an optimal way."

• The Helixx Group

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"Eventually, all great ideas degenerate into work."

• Albert Einstein

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