Malcolm Gladwell

overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

To get a job [students] should be long enough on family connections, long enough on ability or long enough on personality, or a combination of these.

Litiga tion was for hams, not for serious people. Corporations just didn't sue each other in those days.”

contentious and unruly

jab a cigar close to the face of someone he was talking to

fell by the wayside

Janklow and Nesbit

dignified road to starvation.'

Those three things autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and rewardare, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying

The Happiest Man