I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

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

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

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

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.

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

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