Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

[Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."

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

Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if the future is going to be very big, you need to hire people, or suddenly you go to boom to bust, then all of a sudden, you're kind of battening down the hatches and trying to sail, you know, through the storm, it's a different thing. So part of it is making good decisions about, well, how long is a boom cycle going to be, you know, don't plan on it going forever.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.