People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

To be slightly evil is to embrace life.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?