Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

The best decisions are made when you listen to both data and intuition.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

我是一名作家，因为我需要讲故事。这是一种理解生活的方式。

在商业中，就像在生活中一样，我们做出的选择定义了我们是谁。

绝不要和愚蠢的人争论，他们会把你拖到他们那样的水平，然后回击你。