The just concluded "mecca" of global leaders at Davos,  saw the nexus of commerce and diplomacy under one umbrella.

In our earlier post we had listed some of the interesting new faces who could create a "ripple effect" there but the veterans in the game came out as their usual charismatic self.

The big names in the fraternity, entrepreneurs of established corporations and global leaders alike shared these insightful thoughts on technological trends, leadership skills, gender role-sets, economic scenario.

Here's what we found all small businesses can learn something from; words and shared experiences never go waste.

"Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin"- Angela Merkel

"The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today"- Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, WEF

"A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things" - Tim Berners-Lee , inventor of the World Wide Web

"Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better"- Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF

"Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform...I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated"- Queen Rania of Jordan 

"When you have a single currency you move inexorably towards a banking union and forms of fiscal union, and that has huge implications for countries like the UK who are not in the Euro and are frankly never likely to join"-David Cameron, UK Prime Minister

"I am not the woman president of Harvard, I am the President of Harvard"- Drew Faust 

"Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story" - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda


"You need to have a beginner’s mind to create bold innovation" - Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com
"The two biggest tidal waves going on in technology today are social and big data. And they are coming together"- Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel Partners
"Online we can act as a fifth estate"- Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress
"If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your inventiveness" - Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
"There is no turning back the clock on our interconnected world, but we could jeopardize its benefits if we fail to invest in a trusted data environment"- Ellen Richey, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, Visa

"There needs to be an anti-corruption stance from the start, otherwise corruption is in the system" -Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International and Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting, in The Global Agenda 2013 

"For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control" - Marissa Mayer, CEO, Yahoo!

"Leaders who are mindful tend to be more effective in understanding and relating to others, and motivating them toward shared goals. Hence, they become more effective in leadership roles"- William George, Professor, Harvard Business School

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