Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.