90 Quotes by Juan Enriquez

Ask your friends how many stars will be in the U.S. flag in 50 years? And the reason why that's a reasonable question is because there has never been a President of the United States who's been buried under the same flag he was born under.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough to transmit how you hunt, how you eat, how you cook, how you dress, and we can read about that.

I've always been interested in why countries appear and disappear. And the curious thing is how often it happens.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.