You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

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

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

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

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.