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As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.