In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

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