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.

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

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

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.

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

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.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.