Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

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

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