David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by Malcolm Gladwell

the more you scream at girls that age, the more nervous they get.”

When the game becomes about effort over ability,

You have to be outside the establishment—

T. E. Lawrence could triumph because he was the farthest thing from a proper British Army officer.

We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

my father had never played basketball before. Why should he care what the world of basketball thought of him?

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

common sense says that the more attention children get from their teacher, the better their learning experience will be.

Money was a tool that I could use for my aspiration and my desires and my drive,”

“immigrants to wealth” to describe first-generation millionaires—by which he means that they face the same kinds of challenges in relating to their children that immigrants to any new country face.