Sandy Citron

“I would encourage every young woman to find at least one beautifully mucky place in which you’re not the expert—and then to wade in.”
― Jessica Bacal, Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong

“The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success