It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.