Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. - Malcolm Gladwell

I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.

But what actually matters are the hundreds of small things that the powerful do — or don’t do — to establish their legitimacy, like sleeping in the bed of an innocent man you just shot accidentally and scattering your belongings around his house.

Those three things — autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward — are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills us.