If you want to solve a big problem, you need to go from taking credit, to sharing credit, to multiplying credit. The systems that all work, multiply credit. Multiplying credit is just another way of m...
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
Column writing is an act of chemistry—precisely because you must conjure it up yourself. A column doesn’t write itself the way a breaking news story does. A column has to be created. This act of chemi...
Because our workforce is so productive; our infrastructure and Internet bandwidth are so advanced; our openness to talent from anywhere is second to none; our funding for basic research is so generous...
Warren Buffett: «Sólo descubres quién nada desnudo cuando baja la marea».
Toàn cầu hóa có nghĩa là chủ nghĩa tư bản kinh tế thị trường lan vào hầu hết mọi quốc gia trên thế gioii1.
The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of my family, was my high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. She po...
No athlete, no scientist, no musician ever got better without focused practice, and there is no program you can download for that. It has to come from within.
I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, Where people have hope, you have a middle class. I think this is a very useful insight. The exis...
With so many generous friends and family members from so many places for so many years, how could I not still be an optimist? Thomas
When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but...
We are generating more information and knowledge than ever today, but knowledge is only good if you can reflect on it. And
Theo đuổi sự thịnh vượng hay đồng nghĩa với sự truy tìm thông tin và ứng dụng thông tin vào các phương tiện sản xuất. Luật lệ, tập quán, kỹ năng và tài năng cần thiết để tìm kiếm, thu nhập, sản xuất,...
The first line of defense for any society is always going to be its guardrails—laws, stoplights, police, courts, surveillance, the FBI, and basic rules of decency for communities like Facebook, Twitte...
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire
Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought. We are generating more information and knowledge than ever today, but knowledge is only good if you can reflect on i...
Megginson’s dictum: The civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.
Innovation, Teller said, is a cycle of experimenting, learning, applying knowledge, and then assessing success or failure.
In his sobering book Sabbath, the minister and author Wayne Muller observes how often people say to him, I am so busy. We say this to one another with no small degree of pride, Muller writes, as if ou...
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.