The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.