the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.