In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

I've always believed the world would be a better place if more people everywhere have a chance to shape their own future and realize their full potential. I think that is what life is about.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Your soul is your sacred self.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.