Ethical business practices are not constraints, but foundations for long-term growth.

I don't compete with others. I compete with myself.

The wild doesn’t reward the strongest or the fastest. It rewards the most adaptable.

"Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher."

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create new business in the less developed market.