Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

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

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.