Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.

I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way.

Remember to be awesome.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don't know it yet.

If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.