...putting self first, wanting to be liked rather than to lead, making decisions reluctantly, elevating harmony above productive argument, and not trusting subordinates...

...Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do...

...Play defense. Remember the long game. Control what you can control. Prepare for the worst and hope for anything remotely better. Always stick to principles over patterns...

...Ending with a digression, or with an unimportant detail, is particularly to be avoided...

...But because people tend to follow those who came before them, small, random initial differences snowballed...

...When things can’t get any worse, they always do, and when they can’t get any better, they always do...

...An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in the periodic table...

...The periodic table is, finally, an anthropological marvel, a human artifact that reflects all of the wonderful and artful and ugly aspects of human beings and how we interact with the physical world—the history of our species written in a compact and elegant script...

...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...

...Focus is imperative. Even when the thing you're focusing on seems impossible. Especially then...

...success isn’t a list of goals to be checked off one after another. It’s not reaching a destination. Success is a journey...

...So self-certain were Long-Term's traders that they borrowed with little concern about the leverage...

...The third in the bestselling Market Wizards series, this time focusing on the barometer of the economy - the stock market...

...The new news is that formerly independent waves of exponentially accelerating technology are beginning to converge with other independent waves of exponentially accelerating technology...

...So as the manufactured storm I created played itself out in the press, real people started believing it, and it became true...

...For while an incremental improvement over what competitors do may give you a competitive advantage, nothing short of a quantum leap in value will make the competition irrelevant...

...Remember that at least a thousand people have every great idea. One of them actually becomes successful. The difference comes down to execution. It’s a grind, and everyone wishes there were some other way to transform “idea” into “success”, but no one has figured it out yet...

...Be: 1) Humble in our aspirations 2) Gracious in our success 3) Resilient in our failures...

...The challenge of learning in the beginning is that you don’t know what to do. The challenge of learning in the end is that you think you already know what to do. It’s this latter difficulty that causes us to rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems that are encouraged through habit, not always because the old way is actually best...

...If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse...