It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.