You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world.