Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.

有时最危险的人恰恰是那些看起来最普通的人。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The key to success in any business is understanding the market better than anyone else.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

What we do inwardly will change outer reality.