I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'