The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.