Given Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“far in Outliers, we’ve seen that extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity. In this chapter, I want to try…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“All statistics have outliers.”

— Nenia Campbell

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust.…

— James Russell Lowell

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and…

— Giraldus Cambrensis

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own…

— Amartya Sen

The widest influence emerges from the wisest thoughts and the wildest actions. But the weakest one comes from a withered attitude

— Anonymous

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently…

— C. Wright Mills

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

People who can't take advantage of opportunity take advantage of people.

— Mark Goulston

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli