Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.