It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

Emotion is contagious.