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
The 2000s
Commencement addresses and long-form print, mostly — the forms that survived into the archive.
26 people · 54 answers
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
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
39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Recorded · The Nobel Foundation · 2002
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
Founder of The Vanguard Group, 1974
There's the world's work to be done, and there are never enough citizens with determined hearts, courageous character, intelligent minds, and idealistic souls to do it.
Recorded · Georgetown University / johncbogle.com · 2007
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy?
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
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
Novelist and screenwriter
The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life.
Recorded · Harvard Gazette · 2008
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
What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 1978–2023
Luckily, I got at a very early age the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule so to speak.
Recorded · Speakola · 2007
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Recorded · Stanford News (Stanford University) · 2005
Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon
One day, I spoke to him about my sense of shame. He looked me in the eyes and told me that brewing was a science; it was not about getting drunk. He did not stop there.
Recorded · Forbes India · 2009
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