Republic of INSEAD

E28: "Let's Play" - you just never know what kind of ripples you're going to create

E27: "Okay, that's a message of hope for the future."

And finally… "You had your eat, pray, love moment." "I totally did. I won't be shy about it. I was very, very lucky."

Keep humming.... "You're walking on this rope with a river full of alligators below you, and you're doing a dance basically"

"Vanity, definitely my favorite sin"

"Business appears to be 20 smacks in the face and 1 little tickle."

"My job is to make sure that when you wake up in the morning and decide to spend some money, you'll like spend it on me."

"If you can choose between being kind or being right choose kind" said our little Lapin

The monkey does it better than us, AI is going to do it better than the monkeys.

What I learned in politics is, you need to work with everybody

I now introduce myself as a farmer when people ask what I do and nobody takes me seriously

And so I said to myself "Whatever I do next, I want to work in a place where there's a longer term horizon of doing things."

The fact that you can change the shape of the curve of life, like really bend the curve of life is amazing.

Please go fast, but we're going to give you the time that is required.

We got shipwrecked, luckily on this tiny island in the Filipino archipelago

I've taken INSEAD to space and I think I've been the first one to do that.

Every time I get seduced into prioritizing wealth then I tend to make wrong decisions.

There's nothing like a crisis to force people to pivot and change: the world of travel, luxury and entertainment

"The tsunami in Asia was the first of 3 tsunamis I faced in my professional life."

An INSEAD couple: Happiness is being able to do waffles on a Sunday morning for my daughters and my wife and spending time with them

"When you're an entrepreneur, and you're not successful with your first shot, bouncing back from failure is probably the most difficult."

Life is a marathon, not a sprint: as a parent it's important to actually dial things down a bit, rather than push kids

Mr. CA$H: "Well, why can't you build a Moon rocket in your back garden?"

"Prom Queen": If I didn't have that pain point of trying to combine family life with professional life, I probably would have never become an entrepreneur.

The food industry: We feel the pain of global warming instantly, here, and now, and today.

"Before I had to excuse myself for being a techie on a board, now everybody wants to ask me "Well, how do we apply AI to our business?""

The world of biotech: It's like you just saw somebody run one hundred meters in 2.5 seconds

"Harry Potter": I still feel I've got another start-up inside me.