Outliers
Categories: Business & Money
What makes high achievers different? Malcolm Gladwell argues that we focus too much on what successful people are like and too little on where they come from: their culture, their family, their generation, and the quirks of their upbringing. Through stories that range from software billionaires and star soccer players to the Beatles, he shows how much opportunity, timing, and background shape who succeeds.
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- Will Smith
- Jay-Z
- James Altucher
- Dwayne Johnson
- Bill Gates
- Ryan Holiday
- Shah Rukh Khan: “Of course, the Outliers is very well written.”
- Shaun White: “Besides that, The Outliers... I was reading it and I really enjoyed the book... I was amazed about the story about the hockey players in this kind of anomaly in the system. I started applying that to my own life.”
- Fareed Zakaria: “I actually liked “Outliers” the best. The book asks a provocative question: Why do people succeed?”