The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

The wonderful thing about the business now is that more people have the ability to create and exploit their own material. It's going to make for a completely different industry in the next 10 years. Artists don't have to depend on a label to produce their albums. They don't even need to have it placed in stores.

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

Natural selection has favored the ability to have culture, because many of these actions have to do with skills.

Last spring we saw a lot of legislative actions aimed at limiting farmers' ability to use agriculture biotechnology at the state and local level. The groups behind these initiatives were well organized and well funded, and growers in affected areas had to scramble in order to keep having choices in what they could and could not plant.

It's a signal to the market that the Fed means business here. It suggests the Fed is being tough on keeping inflation away but it also suggests they're willing to wait to see how things go before the move a third time.