Top 15 Adam Grant Quotes

Success is not about finishing everything you start. It’s about knowing when to grit and when to quit.

235 studies: When people adjust their goals and plans in the face of challenges, they make more progress—and feel less depressed and anxious.

The ultimate flex is flexibility.

The best way to be heard is not to speak louder. It's to develop a message worth hearing.

Volume captures attention in the moment. Substance shapes thought over time.

The world doesn't need more blaring ignorance. It needs more quiet wisdom.

In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.

Argue like you’re right and listen like you’re wrong.

If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.

We learn more from people who challenge our thought process than those who affirm our conclusions. Strong leaders engage their critics and make themselves stronger. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. This reaction isn’t limited to people in power. Although we might be on board with the principle, in practice we often miss out on the value of a challenge network.

Being original doesn’t require being first. It just means being different and better.

Thinking like a scientist involves more than just reacting with an open mind. It means being actively open-minded. It requires searching for reasons why we might be wrong — not for reasons why we must be right — and revising our views based on what we learn.

Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity.

We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.

As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.

A mark of lifelong learners is recognizing that they can learn something from everyone they meet.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.