The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives.
speech graduation discipline
Ari Weinzweig
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
Half of what you have belongs to those who need it. If you're successful, make the people around you successful.
speech graduation pay it forward
Paul Saginaw
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
speech graduation courage
Ari Weinzweig
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
Generosity leads to joy. It's simple and it's guaranteed.
speech graduation gratitude
Paul Saginaw
University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015
The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
speech graduation creativity
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
speech graduation technology
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who will do the things that no one can imagine.
speech graduation ambition
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and possibility — all in one.
speech graduation wisdom
John Seely Brown
Arizona State University Commencement 2015, 2015
If you're starting a company, you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition. Competition is for losers.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015
All happy companies are different because they're doing something very unique. All unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness that is competition.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015
Start with a really small market and take over that whole market, and then over time find ways to expand that market in concentric circles.
speech graduation entrepreneurship
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015
Don't always go through the tiny little door that everyone's trying to rush through. Maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that no one's taking.
speech graduation independence
Peter Thiel
Stanford University CS Lecture 2015, 2015