We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.