Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.