Quotes About Opportunity

the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate:

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine.

Era un ejemplo de cómo los fuera de serie de un campo particular alcanzaban el estatus más alto mediante una combinación de capacidad, oportunidad y ventaja completamente arbitraria

Y?l?n baÅŸlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun sonlar?nda doÄŸmuÅŸ bir çocuÄŸun kar??s?nda baÅŸlang?çta sahip olduÄŸu küçük avantaj devam ediyor. Bu da çocuklar? y?llarca uzay?p giden baÅŸar? ve baÅŸar?s?zl?k, teÅŸvik etme ve cesaret k?rma modelleri içine hapsediyor.

Çünkü kimde varsa ona daha çok verilecek ve o bolluk içinde olacak. Ancak kimde yoksa kendisinde olan da elinden al?nacak. Daha da büyük baÅŸar?lara ulaÅŸacak olanlar, mevcut durumda baÅŸar?l? olanlard?r; diÄŸer bir deyiÅŸle, kendilerine özel f?rsatlar verilenlerdir.

Malcolm Gladwell

Chamberlain would later

Every moment—every blink—is composed of a series of discrete moving parts, and every one of those parts offers an opportunity for intervention, for reform, and for correction.

View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts. Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. This paragraph from Accidental Millionaire, one of the many Jobs biographies, gives us a sense of

Ancak onlar?n hikayelerini gerçekten farkl? k?lan olaÄŸanüstü yetenekleri deÄŸil, kar??laÅŸt?klar? olaÄŸanüstü f?rsatlar.

Malcolm Gladwell

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine-and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage.

Ä°ÅŸ bulmak için (öÄŸrenciler) doÄŸru aile ba??na, doÄŸru yeteneÄŸe, doÄŸru kiÅŸiliÄŸe ya da bunlar?n bir kombinasyonuna sahip olmal?d?r. Kabul edilebilirlik olarak adland?r?lan ÅŸey, bu parçalar?n toplam?ndan oluÅŸur. Bir insan bunlardan herhangi birine sahipse kendine bir iÅŸ bulabilir. Ä°kisine sahipse, birden fazla iÅŸ seçeneÄŸi olabilir. Üçüne sahipse istediÄŸi iÅŸe girebilir.

Tarihteki özel yerimizin bize sunduÄŸu özel f?rsatlardan kaynaklan?yor.

BaÅŸka tür bir dünyada babam çok daha baÅŸar?l? olabilirdi.

Malcolm Gladwell

put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not

It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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

There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources—and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

There were history's gifts to my family-and if the resources of that grocer, the fruits of those riots, the possibilities of that culture, and the privileges of that skin tone had been extended to others, how many more would now live a life of fulfillment, in a beautiful house high on a hill?

Matthew Effect" after the New Testament verse in the Gospel of Matthew: "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 hath." It is those who are successful, in other

Greenberg] offered his pilots what everyone from hockey players to software tycoons to takeover lawyers has been offered on the way to success: an opportunity to transform their relationship to their work.

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