...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...

...What is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary...

...first fiction post - audiobook on way back from NC...

...if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research...

...You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do...

...If there wasn't a dip, there'd be no scarcity...

...Predicting the future is easy; predicting it correctly is really, really hard...

...An investment in knowledge pays the best interest...

...They can't imagine how or why anyone, including coworkers, would wait their turn - or work hard - for anything they wanted. Their need for stimulation is reflected in a penchant for high-risk, thrill seeking behaviors...

...There’s a baseline IQ level needed to work at my firm, but I don’t need rocket scientists. After that, what best predicts your success in my world is drive, energy, attitude, judgment, conviction, and passion. And an ability to cut to the center of an issue...

...some memories might strike us as convincing not because they are necessarily accurate but because of how often we call them to mind (i.e., reassemble them) and how easy it is do so...

...superforecasting demands thinking that is open-minded, careful, curious, and—above all—self-critical. It also demands focus. The kind of thinking that produces superior judgment does not come effortlessly. Only the determined can deliver it reasonably consistently, which is why our analyses have consistently found commitment to self-improvement to be the strongest predictor of performance...

...to be a world-beater, “you absolutely must choose your parents correctly.”...

...The economy isn’t like an individual family that earns a certain amount and spends some other amount, with no relationship between the two. My spending is your income and your spending is my income...