- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
- Firing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be firing bad teachers.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
- Great Example
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020