Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.
Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.
And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.