This is the homepage of the Intercultural Institute (ICI) and Professor David Pinto, who founded the Institute. The ICI is an independent, private institute that has operated in the field of Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Management since 1982. The ICI offers trainings, workshops, conducts theoretical and applied research and advises organizations in the for-profit as well as non-profit sectors. The training provided by the ICI is based on Pinto's theory concerning the differences that exist between people and on the method he has developed to deal with those differences.
Because the ICI and Pinto are essentially one and the same entity, they appear together on this website.

• Man is the artificer of his own happiness
• The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot

• Happiness does not come from what you have but what you are

• Energy and passion mean more than age
• To know and to accept yourself is a condition for accepting others
• Without friends as well as without enemies, life has no meaning (10th proposition in my Ph.D. thesis)
• Independence is worth more than freedom
• Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. Benjamin Disraeli (Eng. 1804-1881)
• “what does not kill us makes us stronger!!!
  Ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rend plus fort” Nietszche
• To fall is neither a disaster nor a disgrace. To stay down is both.
• The best way to predict your future is to create it.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Helen Keller