Michael Wildes

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“In Steiger's case, of course, his high connectedness is a function of his versatility as an actor and, in all likelihood, some degree of good luck. But in the case of Connectors, their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Mavens are data banks. They provide the message. Connectors are social glue: they spread it. But there is also a select group of people-Salesmen-with the skills to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing, and they are as critical to the tipping of word-of-mouth epidemics as the other two groups.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference