I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.