“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
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We only make progress by getting up from getting kicked to the ground. How does a baby learn to walk? It falls, gets back up… falls, gets back up, and one day its running. You will fall, stumble and fail- that's inevitable. You need to analyse it when it happens, learn from those mistakes, and move on. Don't dwell on failure.
— Thor BjörgólfssonIcelandic billionaire businessman and former chess player
Are you the guy who wants to know what he gets at the end of the month? Or are you the guy who says I'll take my chances and will do very well or very badly. If you can make that distinction in your own mind, the rest is up to you. That's where entrepreneurship comes from; it means you can live with risk.
— Thor BjörgólfssonIcelandic billionaire businessman and former chess player
I would not have believed anyone if they had told me that within eighteen months I would have lost 99 per cent of my $4 billion fortune and would be pursued almost to the brink of bankruptcy by seven major banks… I would have found it impossible to contemplate that I would be treated like a pariah in my home country, saddled with $1 billion in debts and hated as a man who had supposedly almost single-handedly brought down an economy. But that is exactly what happened…
— Thor BjörgólfssonIcelandic billionaire businessman and former chess player
There is a strong possibility that the relationship between humans and their environment would be so fundamentally changed that hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions, would have to move. History tells us that this carries serious risks of severe and extended conflict.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
The people of the world are gambling for colossal stakes. Two centuries of scientific enquiry, founded in basic physics and powerful evidence, indicate that the risks from a changing climate over the next hundred years and beyond are immense.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
We are the first generation that through its neglect could destroy the relationship between humans and the planet, and perhaps the last generation that can prevent dangerous climate change.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
Short-term vision does not allow one to build better businesses and create value. If we keep a long-term perspective in mind, we will go through the good cycles and the bad cycles and reach the other side.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
Simply put, a great business will understand its customers, have a clear, sound strategy and a business plan that can deliver against it.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
While most people are uncomfortable with change we have a business built on analysing it. Our business takes advantage of challenges and the opportunities they provide.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
To me, a great leader should be empathetic, authentic, entrepreneurial, creative, ethical and lead from the front.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
The most common mistake is to stop challenging when things are going well. I recognise failure as not having made a business better than when you were first involved.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
Playing chess, I learned the dramatic effect combining humans and machines. Humans have intuition, can recognise patterns and positions, and machines have brute-force of calculation and memory. By bringing these capabilities together in other walks of life, we can achieve incredible results.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
We cannot think about technology in confrontational terms. There is no race against the machines, there is no fight, no war. We have to end this long, historical confrontational narrative.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
People like Trump rally people behind them by pointing out threats; these may be real, but most likely are imaginary or inflated. Then he says, 'only I can protect you.'
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
History is not linear, like the chapters of a book… History moves through seasons, and so winters are inevitable.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism