Outliers Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teaching, Successful, Opportunity

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• To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Today, Happy Accidents

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

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Business, Years

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• The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Inability, Courses

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.763, Random House

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• It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stars, Athlete, Rocks

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Parent, Possibility

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• The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Real, People, Effort

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• Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Memories, Father

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• 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

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• Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Business, Hard Work

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2008.

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• We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Succeed, Logic, Behinds

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, content.time.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Attitude, Our World

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• The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Leadership, Keys, Decision

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• When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

  Seth

  Delight, Overlooked

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• Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Music, School

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

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• 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, Play, Roles

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• But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

  Kaskade

  Life, Music, Kids

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• When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

  Nate Silver

  Cartoon, Analysis, Onions

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• You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem.

  Aaron Levie

  Crazy, Ecosystems, Want

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• It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Meaningful, Teacher

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• Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard choice for Mr. [Donald] Trump to make because General [Mike] Flynn he's very comfortable with.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Thinking, Choices, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My point is I'm kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written.

  Aaron Bruno

  Blow, People, Mind

  "Interview: AWOLNATION Musician: Aaron Bruno". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Government, Groups

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

  Eugene Fama

  Would Be, Investing, Matter

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