The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.