Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

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

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.