Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.