Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.

Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.