Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)

Quotes from Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

• Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
• Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
• If you work hard enough, assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
• Achievement is talent plus preparation.
• Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.
• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after 30 seconds.
• No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
• In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.