Useful Insight Quotes

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

To me, the best purpose of an interview would be to illuminate some things about how somebody works for the benefit of somebody else who wants to do those things. And that's not where most interviews go at all, so to me, they seem like strange exercises in small talk and wasted air.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.