Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.