"An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience. Bill Gates is successful largely because he had the good fortune to attend a school that gave him the opportunity to spend an enormous amount of time programming computers – more than 10,000 hours, in fact, before he ever started his own company….The Beatles had a musical gift, but what made them the Beatles was a random invitation to play in Hamburg, Germany, where they performed live as much as five hours a night, seven nights a week. That early opportunity for practice made them shine. Talented? Absolutely. But they also simply put in more hours than anyone else." - Author David Hochman