In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.