Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.