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They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
“It’s not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Successful people don’t do it alone. Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“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 particular place in history presents us with.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”
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