Charles Handy Quotes

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.

We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.

Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.