The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we're struck by something that resonates with us.
We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.