“When you have children, you have to ask yourself what the world will look like in the next 80-100 years, because people get that old these days if everything goes well. Last but not least, as a father I see it as my responsibility to think about my actions and my motives.”
— Nico Rosberg
Former Formula 1 World Champion, won 2016 title with Mercedes

The quote archive

Leadership

A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

This is a safe zone for us, so let us move to an unsafe zone and do something new.

— Jesper Kouthoofd

Optimism isn't just a private belief. It is information that we are sharing with other people that becomes evidence of progress and possibility.

— Michelle Gielan

People should recognise, before they enter a conflict, that there has to be an end state. There has to be, first of all, an exit plan, which will depend on what your aims are in the first place. Because if you have not got any aims, it is difficult to see how to come out of it.

— Arthur Denaro

It was not a psychological operation. It was good communication. And of course, so many of these things come back to good communication.

— Arthur Denaro

The intrinsic disadvantage of a dictatorship is that a dictator does not get feedback, and so there is not a chance to make corrections.

— Jared Diamond

He was born at the right time. He was born at the right place. If he had been born 20 years earlier and 200 miles to the south, nobody would ever have known about Genghis Khan.

— Jared Diamond

Bill Gates was a very successful leader, but he doesn't pass the Hamlet Test.

— Jared Diamond

Life is complicated, and usually the single most important thing is to avoid looking for the single most important thing.

— Jared Diamond

It's not a nine-to-five job. It's a lifestyle more than a career — and by lifestyle, I don't mean a pink gin-sipping lifestyle. It's a commitment to public service.

— Ian Proud

We can't make people feel better. What we can do is ensure that, through our kindness and our practical help, we don't make the situation a great deal worse for them.

— Ian Proud

You can never fail in a crisis if you just act now — if you just do it, and think about the cost later.

— Ian Proud

The system incentivised the promotion of individuals who could read the room — or the Hippodrome.

— Anthony Kaldellis

I am still a physiologist. I am not absorbed by the pharmaceutical industry. I have stuck to my laboratory, to the science.

— Jens Juul Holst