"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals."

"More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized."

"The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?"

"What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience."

"The true measure of a man is the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

"General intelligence in machines will a fundamental transformation of human capability, and we must be prepared for the consequences."

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."