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

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

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

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."

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.

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