We cannot reverse these trends on our own; the will has to come from within these societies. But we can raise the odds that they will do it themselves by raising the number of people with the will to...
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...
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...
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...
Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, made the case for why in an essay in The American Interest on July 10, 2016, entitled When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalis...
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...
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...
Teller tells his teams: I don’t care how much progress you make this month; my job is to cause your rate of improvement to increase—how do we make the same mistake in half the time for half the money?...
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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.
Innovation, Teller said, is a cycle of experimenting, learning, applying knowledge, and then assessing success or failure.
A failure is a circumstance not yet fully turned to your advantage.)
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
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
We are generating more information and knowledge than ever today, but knowledge is only good if you can reflect on it. And
Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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...