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

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.