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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.