If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

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

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

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

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.