To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

Most of us don't work out what we want. And most of us end up with lopsided lives as a result.

It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being lazy - having plenty of time to think - may actually be a precondition for achieving a great deal.