Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
One setback after another, we shook it off and skated to the next opportunity. Each time, we gain skills and strengthen our character.
Recorded · NVIDIA Blog · 2024
In their sixties
Late enough to be looking back, close enough to still be doing the work. Most of the advice-to-your-younger-self answers here were given by someone in this decade or the next.
49 people · 92 answers
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
Psychologist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
I got quite nice results in my one-question studies, but never wrote up any of the work, because I had set myself impossible standards: in order not to pollute the literature, I wanted to…
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2002
Journalist, essayist, screenwriter and film director
I wish I had learned more from failure than just mortification. I don’t think you learn much from success, and I don’t think you learn much from failure, unfortunately.
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 2007
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1985–1991; President of the Soviet Union 1990–1991
A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 1991
Chancellor of Germany, 2005–2021; Leader of the Christian Democratic Union 2000–2018
The Berlin Wall limited my opportunities. It quite literally stood in my way.
Recorded · The Harvard Gazette, Harvard University · 2019
Co-founder and former chairman of Infosys
I will begin with the importance of learning from experience. It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn.
Recorded · Rediff · 2007
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
Chancellor of Germany, 2005–2021; Leader of the Christian Democratic Union 2000–2018
Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, for nothing has to stay as it is.
Recorded · The Harvard Gazette, Harvard University · 2019
Founder of Grameen Bank; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006
In a poverty-free world, the only place you would be able to see poverty is in the poverty museums.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2006
Gynaecological surgeon; Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2018
Taking action means saying 'no' to indifference. If there is a war to be waged, it is the war against the indifference which is eating away at our societies.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2018
First Lady of the United States 1933–1945; United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly 1945–1952; Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights 1946–1951
If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.
Recorded · Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, The George Washington University · 1944
Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1997–2006
In this new century, we must start from the understanding that peace belongs not only to states or peoples, but to each and every member of those communities.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2001
Founder of the Green Belt Movement; Member of Parliament for Tetu, Kenya, 2002–2007; Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources 2003–2005
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2004
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
Sherry offered me a list of research options: the one project that intrigued me the most consisted of finding out the environmental fate of certain very inert industrial chemicals – the…
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2007
Founder of the Green Belt Movement; Member of Parliament for Tetu, Kenya, 2002–2007; Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources 2003–2005
Tree planting became a natural choice to address some of the initial basic needs identified by women.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2004
Psychologist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
Amos and I shared the wonder of together owning a goose that could lay golden eggs – a joint mind that was better than our separate minds.
Recorded · Nobel Prize Outreach · 2002
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