Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

Success doesn’t always look like what we think it looks like.

The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.

For example, I wear clothes I buy at trendy shops because I don't care much about clothing. If someone wants to create a trend around clothing, I'll happily and blindly follow.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.

However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.

I believe in labeling things.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

No camouflage.

A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn't be in business.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer.

It is the empiric who never fails.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.