Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...

Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

Human beans are for Borrowers—like bread’s for butter!

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.