A surgeon might want to be the best surgeon in Manhattan, but out on Long Island on the weekend, not care at all how he is on the tennis courts or on the Ping-Pong table. Even turning your competitiveness off when it's appropriate, when other people are not being competitive, to recognize that social circumstance and, you know, cool it. That's a crucial competitive skill.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

‎It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

We've all lost something along the way.