“Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.”

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.

Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.

It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Your brand is your culture.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.

Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

I’s all about finding balance in your life.

But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.

Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals.

Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, ’cause it’s a nice balance to the weightlifting.