The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.