Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Persistence

Quotes about: Persistence

• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Function

• I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Thinking

  "Book World Live: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers'". Online Discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2008.

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