Achievement is talent plus preparation. - Malcolm Gladwell

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking — It will make you wrinkled! It will make you impotent! It will make you dead! — is useless,” Harris concludes. “This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments. It is because adults don’t approve of smoking — because there is something dangerous and disreputable about it — that teenagers want to do it.

Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification — then you learn to value it differently.