Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.