Working really hard is what successful people do..

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us..

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard..

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply co….

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your m….

I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an insti….

Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer..

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs..

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking..

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention..

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what y….

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always….

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter..

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go fo….

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess ef….

Change your mind about something significant every day..

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess..

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk..

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments..

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders..

We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is ….