Working really hard is what successful people do.

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

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.