By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

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

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.