Adam Grant Quotes

Adam Grant is an American author and organizational psychologist. He has written several best-selling books, including "Give and Take" and "Originals," which explore topics such as motivation, success, and creativity. Grant's research and insights on workplace dynamics and personal development have made him a highly regarded figure in his field.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

The great thing about a culture of givers is that'... -Adam Grant

The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the ... -Adam Grant

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

Conformity is dangerous.... -Adam Grant

Conformity is dangerous.

I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed ... -Adam Grant

I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my ... -Adam Grant

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

In the conversation about women in leadership, mal... -Adam Grant

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.

The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more ... -Adam Grant

Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

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