"We need to be clear when we venerate……" — Malcolm Gladwell
"We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen."
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219 Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has 219 quotes on this site.
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[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You…
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The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much…
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word…
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We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
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The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who…
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Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I…
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Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments…
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Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that…
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Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.
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I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with…
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More Businessman Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
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When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my…
— Glenn Beck
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
— Richard Branson
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The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have…
— Mohamed Al-Fayed
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I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a…
— Herman Cain
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We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help…
— Herman Cain
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Great businessmen are creators.
— Eric Cantona
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
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