The best leaders are those who listen to both the earth and their people.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

The essence of finance is to serve the real economy, not to cycle and inflate itself.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

我们发现的每一颗新行星都让我们更接近回答这个古老的问题：我们在宇宙中是孤独的吗？