So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
