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One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.