The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.