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

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

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

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

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.