Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teamwork, Communication, Errors

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.127, Penguin UK

• 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

• If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Careers, Entrepreneur, Risk

• 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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