If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.