And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

自然法则不仅仅是被观察到的，而是观察者与被观察者之间相互作用的结果。

只有一个老板，那就是顾客。他可以通过把钱花在别处，轻而易举地解雇公司里的任何人，从董事长开始。

我想建立一些属于自己的东西，一些我可以指着说，这是我做的。这是我看到的唯一让生活有意义的方式。

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.