I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money and what it's like to have a lot of it. I'm lucky because people make such a big deal of it and, if I didn't experience both, I wouldn't be able to know how important it really is for me. I can't comment on what having a lot of money means to others, but I do know that for me, having a lot more money isn't a lot better than having enough to cover the basics.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

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

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.

When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.