If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.