In business, as in science, the most important discoveries often come from challenging the status quo.

人生は、自分が望むように生きるか、他人が望むように生きるかのどちらかだ。

The main task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.