Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it’s really easy to look at someone else’s life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Economics is not an exact science. It’s a combination of an art and elements of science. And that’s almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we’re improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
You can’t win them all.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
