If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers,… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
You want to find the really crazy but still somewhat reasonable outliers within the customer ecosystem. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you. — Seth Copy Share Image
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
My point is I'm kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
“If you believe in an idea that others find radical, don’t let fear keep you from stepping outside of conformity.” — Chitra D. Nawbatt Copy Share Image
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
