“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....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
“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
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