In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.