You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.

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

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.