If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

I found school very boring and frustrating.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.