The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

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

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

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.

Passion is born of vague hopes.