The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.

I don't like things that aren't true.

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.