More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

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

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

One of the things meditation gives you is creativity because creativity really comes from the subconscious brain - intuition, imagination - so it's not like you can go there and say, I'm going to go be creative now. Maybe you can, but the real way you get creativity is, you know, you're taking a hot shower and great ideas come to you from the subconscious. Essentially, meditation opens a pipeline between the conscious and the subconscious.