If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.