Malcolm Gladwell quotes - page 4

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right? (Malcolm Gladwell)
No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone. View quote
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don't spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options. View quote
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Successful people don't do it alone. View quote
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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. View quote
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. View quote
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. View quote
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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do. View quote
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent. View quote
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. View quote
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. (Malcolm Gladwell)
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts. View quote
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game? View quote
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. View quote
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. View quote
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. View quote
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. View quote
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids. View quote
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. View quote
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It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years. View quote
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field. (Malcolm Gladwell)