Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates， and the magistrates obey the law.

So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The stories we tell ourselves shape who we become.

The measure of success is not just in yields, but in lives improved.