Brit Cheung

“In connected systems, power is defined by both profound concentration and by massive distribution.”
― Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

“Today, whether we work in Düsseldorf or Dubai, Brasília or Beijing, New York or New Delhi, we are all part of a global network (real or virtual, physical or electronic) where success requires navigating through wildly different cultural realities. Unless we know how to decode other cultures and avoid easy-to-fall-into cultural traps, we are easy prey to misunderstanding, needless conflict, and ultimate failure.”
― Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel