If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

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

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.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

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

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