The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

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

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

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.