Quotes About Success

It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make

Contamos historias del tipo hecho a sí mismo porque encontramos algo encantador en la idea de una heroica lucha solitaria contra probabilidades abrumadoras.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's a rags-to-riches story, and everything we've learned so far from hockey players and software billionaires and the Termites suggests that success doesn't happen that way. Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we're from, and being a good pilot and coming from a high–power distance culture is a difficult mix.

our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic.

When we talk about the advantages of class, Lareau argues, this is in large part what we mean. Alex Williams is better off than Katie Brindle because he's wealthier and because he goes to a better school, but also because—and perhaps this is even more critical—the sense of entitlement that he has been taught is an attitude perfectly suited to succeeding in the modern world.

Malcolm Gladwell

The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder

manuscript. Happily, they complied, and Outliers is infinitely

Popeils had been doing for most of the century, and what all the experts said couldn't be done in the modern economy. He dreamed up something new in his kitchen and went out and pitched it himself.

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there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (151).

what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. For

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

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Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and oppor­tunities

The professional hockey player starts out a little bit better than his peers.