A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle..

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of soc….

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where ….

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication..

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves..

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome..

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite..

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social..

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s….

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen..

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist….

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction..

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich..

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing..

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost..

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do..

The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bot….

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior a….

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values..

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience.

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative st….