I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.