"An idea meritocracy is a system that brings together smart people and smart concepts."

"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."

"Great collaboration feels like playing jazz."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."