Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.