Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.