“Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.”

“So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.”

“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”

“Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”

“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”

“Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him.”

“You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.”