Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.