In these political times, that's more difficult, you must plant your flag somewhere, and someone will get upset. You have to be able to take that in your stride.
— Joe Zammit-Lucia“If you only listen to the voices around you, you'll amalgamate them into something that already exists… My view was that consensus isn't going to build something that will change the game.”— Ben Francis
Founder and CEO of Gymshark, fitness apparel company
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We're starting to realise that business is a major force in deciding the sort of society we live in- and so the role of business must be more in tune with political, social and moral norms of the day.
— Joe Zammit-LuciaRunning a business is a challenging job, but until relatively recently, that job was simplified to the extent that you had one target – make as much money as you can for the shareholders. Now, you have to balance a multitude of targets which makes it much more challenging.
— Joe Zammit-LuciaWe need a change from managers to leaders. We need people who can understand the political and moral structure of their companies, and who can motivate and bring people to go in the direction of those values. That's true leadership.
— Joe Zammit-LuciaMixed martial arts aren't like boxing. In boxing, if you lose on your way up? It's pretty much career over. In mixed martial arts, there are so many ways to win and lose... When that happens, you say, 'OK, what did I do wrong?' – you have to be honest with yourself.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
When you're training in the martial arts, you always want to be getting beaten in the practice room. That signifies you're fighting good people. When you're getting beaten, you're getting better, you're learning.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
You're not going to be a warrior in battle unless you are a warrior in preparation. You have to be single-minded, you can't just show-up on the night.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
When you're angry, you're in a frantic state of mind, you are not the best version of yourself. When you're fighting the very best martial artists on the planet, you cannot react out of emotion. You have to be cool, calm, collected and in the moment.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
Martial arts gave me my identity, my purpose, a passion for a pursuit in life. I wasn't particularly good at sports, I didn't have many friends, and was a bit of a loner. Martial arts changed everything. I finally found something I was good at... it became my identity... it helped my confidence... it gave me a social circle!
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
While people have been worried about AI being embedded in humanoid robots from the science fiction world, our lives have been shaped and influenced by AI which makes tens of billions of decisions each day about what we see, and how we communicate.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
There's a delicate balance between making sure our values are encoded in these technologies as they come out- and not constraining them so much that we lose the technological race to other nations who don't hold our values.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
We haven't really had a technology like AI in the history of technological development – the closest analogy would be the movable type printing press, which came to the fore at the beginning of the enlightenment, some five hundred years ago.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
AI has been an area of technology for many decades, but the advances of the past five-years show us why this is one of the major technology events of the last several centuries.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
We have these floods of ideas when we allow ourselves to slow down – you get this pent-up energy that flows out of you.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
The average person works more than five days a week… they're burned out by the weekend, they end up drinking too much alcohol, too much caffeine, they don't look after themselves, they're reacting to how they feel instead of preparing for the tasks ahead.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
When do we have our best ideas? When we're in the shower… when we're on a long drive with a radio off… when we're on a hike. The research supports this too.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant