No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now. . . innovation and creativity are necessary.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
A sky full of silent suns.