People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.