“What I like the most and essentially is never done is to start off a negotiation by talking about how you'll negotiate, what's the process going to be? And to say things like 'my goal in this negotiation is to reach an agreement with you in which we create a giant pie and split it evenly and can we agree that that's our goal?'”

— Barry Nalebuff

Co-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor

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Resilience is the responsibility and opportunity of the community.

— Sheryl Sandberg

COO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In

We have to stop pretending that there's no adversity, or that we can't do anything about the adversity we face. We need to fix the culture of silence and ignorance surrounding bias and adversity.

— Sheryl Sandberg

COO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In

In order to fix bias you have to admit to them, you have to admit they exist and bring them out of the shadows. Then you can call them out.

— Sheryl Sandberg

COO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In

Resilience is not a muscle we're born with, it's something we have to build and believe in over time. We should never ask ourselves how much resilience we have, but rather how much we can build, and how we can build it into ourselves, our friends, and the people around us.

— Sheryl Sandberg

COO of Facebook & Author of "Lean In

We've created a reflex for paternalism whereby a donor looks upon the recipients of large assets with an attitude akin to saying 'well, you need me don't you... here I am... take what I have regardless of what you want and need.' There's also a kind of overambition about what money alone can achieve.

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

Even if I had all the money in the world, no problem worth fixing can be solved in my lifetime. The best I can do is to be part of the process, and to help the world figure it out.

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

You create change in other people when you're totally honest, transparent, and authentic. When you show people who you really are, with all your flaws, with all your vulnerabilities...it moves them. People would come up to me crying and thanking me for telling the truth.

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

Imagine Martin Luther King walked into your foundation. Would he pass muster? He would not get a dime out of most contemporary foundations because he would say, 'honestly? This work will take years, people are going to die, I'm not sure how it will turn out.'

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

I often hear people say that everything that matters must be measured, and if it can't be measured, it doesn't matter. I believe the absolute reverse. Nothing that matters can be measured. I don't think there's anything on this earth worth lifting a finger for that you can measure.

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

You must tell yourself the truth about money if you're going to give it away well. If you can't live well with $999 million, there's something clearly wrong with you. Money gets inside us; it creates our perceptions and changes the way we operate. It changes the people among whom we are, and who we are. When we're not in touch with that reality, it can change us in heinous ways.

— Abigail Disney

Documentary Filmmaker & Philanthropist, Walt Disney's Great-Granddaughter

What's the business hip hop of this post pandemic world? Who's going to be the Rapper's Delight of the post pandemic world?

— Mark Cuban