Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.