Quotes About Opportunity

It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And

The Matthew Effect "FOR UNTO EVERYONE THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN, AND HE SHALL HAVE ABUNDANCE. BUT FROM HIM THAT HATH NOT SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY EVEN THAT WHICH HE

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

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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

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The answer, of course, is neither. No one is failing anyone. It's just that the very thing that makes elite schools such wonderful places for those at the top makes them very difficult places for everyone else.

Bill Joy got an extraordinary, early opportunity to learn programming on a time-share system as a freshman in college, in 1971. Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

The standard immigrant-entrepreneur story is about the redemptive power of grit and ingenuity.

Gates without mentioning the computer at Lakeside is false, or accounting for Asian math prowess without going back to the rice paddies is false. It leaves out my mother's many opportunities and the importance of her cultural legacy.

Malcolm Gladwell

Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky — but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up.

Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert.

the systems we set up to determine who gets ahead aren't particularly efficient.

we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

way the world of classical music picks its future virtuosos, or the way the world of ballet picks its future ballerinas, or the way our elite educational system picks its future scientists and intellectuals. You can't buy your way into Major Junior A hockey. It doesn't matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Nor does it matter

nineteenth century of the land of opportunity across the ocean.

Malcolm Gladwell