You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.
-pg 129

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.