21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

All we really want to do is dance.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

The best lies about me are the ones I told.