Best Quotes from Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell with Page Numbers

"Embrace the Struggle."

"Success in hockey is based on individual merit—and both of those words are important."

"People don’t rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage."

"The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine."

"It’s not enough to ask what successful people are like. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn’t."

"We think that starting all-star leagues and gifted programs as early as possible is the best way of ensuring that no talent slips through the cracks."

"Those who are successful are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success."

"We become much too passive. 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."

"If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter.

"We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don’t matter at all."

‘The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything.’

‘Achievement is talent plus preparation.’

‘Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.’

‘All of us down there had this recurring nightmare of forgetting to show up for class at all, of not even realizing we were enrolled.’

‘What truly distinguishes their histories is not their extraordinary talent but their extraordinary opportunities.’

‘The Beatles … learned not only stamina. They had to learn an enormous amount of numbers—cover versions of everything you can think of, not just rock and roll, a bit of jazz too.’

‘Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.’

‘It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.’

‘It was the sheer amount of time the band was forced to play.’

‘But someone figured out that if you put in ‘time equals’ and then a letter, like t equals k, they wouldn’t charge you.’

"Knowledge of a boy’s IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys."

"The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point."

"Intelligence has a threshold."

"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals."

"Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity."

"IQ is a lot like height in basketball."

"It’s almost impossible to read a newspaper account of any sort of competition or activity in which California boys and girls participate without finding among the winners the names of one or more...members of our gifted group."

"Just because intelligence is important doesn't mean it’s the only qualification for success."

"Terman made an error. He was wrong about his Termites, and had he happened on the young Chris Langan... he would have been wrong about him for the same reason."

"Intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."

I don’t think there is anyone smarter than me out there.

I have never met anybody like me or never seen even an indication that there is somebody who actually has better powers of comprehension.

It’s a heartbreaking story.

The issue with Chris is that he was always too bored to actually sit there and listen to his teachers.

If Christopher had been born into a wealthy family... he would have been one of those guys you read about, knocking back PhDs at seventeen.

What does the story of Chris Langan tell us?

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap... is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls 'practical intelligence.'

I realized, here I was, knocking myself out to make the money to make my way back to school, and it’s the middle of the Montana winter.

It was the great paradox of Chris Langan’s genius.

They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly for the world.

"It’s not that those guys were smarter lawyers than anyone else; it’s that they had a skill that they had been working on for years that was suddenly very valuable."

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

"If you want to be a great New York lawyer, it is an advantage to be an outsider, and it is an advantage to have parents who did meaningful work, and, better still, it is an advantage to have been born in the early 1930s."

"There is no better lesson for a budding lawyer than that."

"Work that fulfills those three criteria is meaningful."

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

"What started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity."

"To exploit that opportunity, you had to have certain virtues, and those immigrants worked hard. They sacrificed. They scrimped and saved and invested wisely."

"The true story of Joe Flom’s life turns out to be much more intriguing than the mythological version because all the things in his life that seem to have been disadvantages... turn out, unexpectedly, to have been advantages."

"Their world—their culture and generation and family history—gave them the greatest of opportunities."

“You can’t wipe out that blood.”

“The critical moment in the development of the young shepherd’s reputation is his first quarrel.”

“It’s a world where a man’s reputation is at the center of his livelihood and self-worth.”

“When one family fights with another, it’s a feud. When lots of families fight with one another in identical little towns up and down the same mountain range, it’s a pattern.”

“That is a strange and powerful fact.”

“Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives.”

“They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact.”

“The question for the second part of Outliers is whether the traditions and attitudes we inherit from our forebears can play the same role.”

“Success arises out of the steady accumulation of advantages: when and where you are born, what your parents did for a living.”

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"The issue of Korean Air is not a matter of an individual company but a matter of the whole country. Our country’s credibility is at stake."

"Our ability to succeed at what we do is powerfully bound up with where we’re from... being a good pilot and coming from a high–power distance culture is a difficult mix."

"They should have been coordinating. He should have been briefing for the step-downs. But he doesn’t talk about that..."

"You have to be a good pilot. That much goes without saying: he had to have the technical skill to land heavy. But almost everything else... fell outside the strict definition of piloting skills."

"What if there was something about the pilots’ being Colombian that led to that crash?"

"If you are trying to land at JFK at rush hour, there is no nonverbal communication. It’s people talking to people, so you need to be darn sure you understand what’s going on."

"Nobody has to throw up their hands in despair. Culture can change. It can evolve into something better, something more effective."

"Planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn’t going to be afraid to speak up."

"Mitigation explains one of the great anomalies of plane crashes. In commercial airlines, captains and first officers split the flying duties equally. But historically, crashes have been far more likely to happen when the captain is in the 'flying seat.'"

"...perhaps the most interesting is what he called the 'Power Distance Index' (PDI). Power distance is concerned with attitudes toward hierarchy, specifically with how much a particular culture values and respects authority."

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

"If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy."

"Without rice, you don’t survive. If you want to be anyone in this part of China, you would have to have rice. It made the world go around."

"The harder you work a rice field, the more it yields."

"It really matters that the field is perfectly leveled before you flood it."

"Getting it close to level but not quite right makes a big difference in terms of your yield."

"Useless to ask about the crops, it all depends on hard work and fertilizer."

"Farmers are busy; farmers are busy; if farmers weren’t busy, where would grain to get through the winter come from?"

"This belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty."

"Hard work gave those in the fields a way to find meaning in the midst of great uncertainty and poverty."

"Our kids’ reading is on point... But when they leave here, they rock in math."

"What KIPP is most famous for is mathematics."

"It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them."

"In return, KIPP promises that it will take kids like her who are stuck in poverty and give them a chance to get out."

"She has made a bargain with her school."

"Every one of us is smart."

"To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success."

"Marita just needed a chance. And look at the chance she was given!"

"The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked."

"The world could be so much richer than the world we have settled for."