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.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.

People don't rise from nothing.

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

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?