Outliers Quotes

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

People don't rise from nothing.

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

Sanity is not statistical.

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

Genius is the error in the system.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I'm always looking at how I can be atypical.

I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society.

It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.