Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.