People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.