There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

Do it, fix it, try it.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!