Leadership is about making tough decisions with compassion and foresight.
Inspiration can come from the most unexpected places.
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
The digital revolution has transformed the way we think about markets, competition, and economic policy.
The persistence of gender inequality is not just a failure of policy but a failure of imagination.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
The quality of an organization's ethics determines the quality of its decisions.