Big winners pay for so many experiments.

Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard studied upward social and economic mobility in the United States and other countries for almost fifty years. He was looking for the reasons why some individuals and families moved up from lower socioeconomic classes to higher socioeconomic classes, generation by generation, sometimes starting at laboring jobs and beco

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

a few years earlier made him make the decision that he was never going to let anything stand in his way. He said, ‘People are paralyzed by their fear of what might happen, and so they won’t reach out and grab what’s in front of them. And that’s pretty much what I did.’