Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”

“No one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone.”

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”

“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.”

“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.”

“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”