"If you look at the careers of great……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’."
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
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