The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline—a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place.
官僚主义的目的是为了弥补无能和缺乏纪律——如果你一开始就有合适的人，这个问题基本上就不存在了。
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
当创造一个多样化和包容的环境时，社区的所有成员更有可能成功。
我认为过去的成绩非常重要。如果你从早就开始努力在一些简单的事情上，比如诚实，拥有一个完美的记录，你就已经在这个世界上走上了成功的道路。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
在危机时刻，真正的领导力是通过行动而非言语展现的。
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.