There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.