"Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all."
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Malcolm Gladwell
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
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