Work harder than your opponent.
That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.