Adam Grant
American organizational psychologist and author, born 1981
54 quotes.
Quotes by Adam Grant
- The most important quality in a leader is integrity: doing the right thing even when it’s hard.
- The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments.
- To understand success, pay less attention to the final product and more to the mundane process. […] The seeds of greatness are planted in the daily grind.
- We can’t control what people say, but we do have a say in how we react. Refusing to give others power over our feelings is a mark of emotional intelligence.
- We don’t need more empathy in the world. We need more compassion. Empathy is feeling the pain and suffering of others. Compassion is acting to relieve the pain and suffering of others.
- We favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt
- We laugh at people who still use Windows 95, yet we still cling to opinions that we formed in 1995.
- We pay too much attention to the most confident voices — and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
- When short-term tasks feel trivial, lumping them into a larger goal makes them meaningful. When long-term goals feel impossible, slicing them into smaller pieces makes them manageable.
- When you face a choice between being polite and being honest, err on the side of the truth. It’s better to be disliked but respected than to be liked but disrespected. In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere.
- When you receive great advice from a mentor, don’t just send a thank you note the next day. Send another the following month or the following year. The passage of time shows deeper gratitude and more lasting impact.
- You don’t need to build confidence to achieve challenging goals. You build confidence through achieving challenging goals. Confidence is more the result of progress than the cause of it.
- Your greatest teachers aren’t the ones who know the most. They’re the ones who want to know the most.