When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that...

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.

Life is learning process. We must keep learning.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy;...