Malcolm Gladwell Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Achievement is talent plus preparation

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Achievement, Preparation

• Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Views, Play, Careers

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.30, Penguin UK

• Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Talent, Should

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

• When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Development, Incentives

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

• 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.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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