There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

Future leaders will be less concerned with saying what they will deliver and more concerned with delivering what they have said they would.

People are our greatest asset .

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.

When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

We do not see through our eyes alone.

I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

I like ideas, frameworks, and figures.

I buy, collect and read books.

When you're taking your one-thousandth selfie of the day that might be the moment you try to kill the person by lethal hugging!

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'