Meditation helps you stay in a calm, clear-headed state so that when challenges come at you, you can deal with them like a ninja - in a calm thoughtful way. When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect system.

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

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

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.