By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that.

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer.

The only ones who fly are the one who dare to fly.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.