In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
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If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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