The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...it inspired me to keep going.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.