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“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups--and with good reason. This is the form that racial and ethnic stereotypes take. We want to believe that we are not prisoners of our ethnic histories. But the simple truth is that if you want to understand ... you have to go back to the past ... it matters where you're from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where you great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents grew up and even where your great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”
― 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. (151)”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
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