I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Savor life authentically.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

I never thought I am going to be so followed and to see my stuff and on some other places... so I want to say big Thanks to all.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Knowledge is a process, not a product.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.

Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?