“grit: having passion and perseverance toward long-term goals.” — Adam M. Grant Goals Copy Share Image
“The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms.” — Adam M. Grant Advocacy Copy Share Image
“Common ground is a major influence on giving behaviors.” — Adam M. Grant Common ground Copy Share Image
“seeking advice is among the most effective ways to influence peers, superiors, and subordinates.” — Adam M. Grant Influence Copy Share Image
“research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.” — Adam M. Grant Givers Copy Share Image
“In her dying breath in 1893, Lucy Stone whispered four words to her daughter: “Make the world better.” — Adam M. Grant Children Copy Share Image
“Meyer summarizes his code of honor as “(1) Show up. (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road.” — Adam M. Grant Code of honor Copy Share Image
“what motivates people to practice at such length in the first place? This is where givers often enter the picture.” — Adam M. Grant First place Copy Share Image
“hiring stars is advantageous neither to stars themselves, in terms of their performance, nor to hiring companies in terms of their market… — Adam M. Grant Investing Copy Share Image
“there’s a fine line between having a strong culture and operating like a cult. For” — Adam M. Grant Cult Copy Share Image
“Empathy is a pervasive force behind giving behaviors, but it’s also a major source of vulnerability.” — Adam M. Grant Empathy Copy Share Image
“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined… — Adam M. Grant Emotion Copy Share Image
“a culture that focuses too heavily on solutions becomes a culture of advocacy, dampening inquiry. If you’re always expected to have an… — Adam M. Grant Advocacy Copy Share Image
“In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a… — Adam M. Grant Givers Copy Share Image
“If you want to engage your audience, if you really want to grab their attention, you have to know the world they… — Adam M. Grant Attention Copy Share Image
“The turnaround highlights a remarkable principle of giver burnout: it has less to do with the amount of giving and more with… — Adam M. Grant Burnout Copy Share Image
“Legitimizing small contributions draws in takers, making it difficult and embarrassing for them to say no, without dramatically reducing the amount donated… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Meyer is a vegetarian who practices yoga, and in 2005 he cowrote Earth to America, a TBS special that utilized comedy as… — Adam M. Grant Environmental issues Copy Share Image
“Taking is using other people solely for one’s own gain. Receiving is accepting help from others while maintaining a willingness to pay… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary… — Adam M. Grant Creativity Copy Share Image
“One of the best things about developing that credibility was if I wanted to try something that was fairly strange, people would… — Adam M. Grant Books Copy Share Image
“Shifting the focus from why to how can help people become less radical. In a series of experiments, when people with extreme… — Adam M. Grant Help people Copy Share Image
“When people assume that others aren’t givers, they act and speak in ways that discourage others from giving, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“One study of more than 2,800 Americans over age twenty-four showed that volunteering predicted increases in happiness, life satisfaction, and self-esteem—and decreases… — Adam M. Grant Depression Copy Share Image
“Meyer’s reluctance to take credit might have cost him some fame in the short run, but he wasn’t worried about it. He… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Salk’s coworkers from Pittsburgh… had come expecting to be honored by their boss. A tribute seemed essential, and long overdue.” This was… — Adam M. Grant Father figure Copy Share Image
“Strong ties provide bonds, but weak ties serve as bridges: they provide more efficient access to new information. Our strong ties tend… — Adam M. Grant Social Circle Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln is usually regarded as the greatest of all American presidents. When experts rated the presidents on the desire to please… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, negative relationships were stressful. When officers felt undermined by their closest coworker, they were less committed, took more unauthorized breaks,… — Adam M. Grant Emotional energy Copy Share Image
“Dormant ties offer the access to novel information that weak ties afford, but without the discomfort” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“The more successful people have been in the past, the worse they perform when they enter a new environment.” — Adam M. Grant Environment Copy Share Image
“Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second and keep one foot on first base.” — Adam M. Grant Baseball Copy Share Image
“The presence of a single giver was enough to establish a norm of giving.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.” — Adam M. Grant Creativity Copy Share Image
“The worst performers and the best performers are givers; takers and matchers are more likely to land in the middle.” — Adam M. Grant Takers Copy Share Image
“When confronted with the idea of a digital camera, leaders repeatedly asked, “Where’s the film? There’s no film?” — Adam M. Grant Cinema Copy Share Image
“Overall, just showing people how they were doing relative to the local norm caused a dramatic improvement” — Adam M. Grant Improvement Copy Share Image
