You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.