Outliers are those who have been given opportunities – and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
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I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.
Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.
There's no possibility of being pessimistic when people are dependent on you for their only optimism.
Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.
I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.
Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.
The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.
If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
