Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Genius is patience.

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

If you don't work hard, all the talent doesn't help.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.