The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.