Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Doors, People

  "Malcolm Gladwell: 'If my books appear oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

• Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Communication, Writing

• No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Business, Years

• Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

• We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, People, Too Much

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.25, Hachette UK

• Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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