...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...
...Begin thinking of how you will engineer the appropriate customer response at every step along the way...
...A risk is more likely to work out if you are seeking a reward you actually want. It sounds so obvious, but we often take risks just because we want change. And when we do that, we often lose, no matter what happens...
...But you don’t have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1...
...Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal...
...“So how did a socially awkward English math whiz mastermind manipulation of lending rates on a global scale?”...
...“Quality without results is pointless,” Cruyff famously said. “Results without quality is boring”...
...Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. It’s not something you are. It’s something you do...
