Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Your network is your filter.

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

What excites you? What do you do well? What can you do better? In short what does success mean to you?

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

A political leader worthy of assassination

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.