Jewish Immigrant Garment Entrepreneurs "Worked Hard"
(p. 145) "There is no doubt that those Jewish immigrants
arrived at the perfect time, with the perfect skills," says
the sociologist Stephen Steinberg. "To exploit that opportunity,
you had to have certain virtues, and those immigrants
worked hard. They sacrificed. They scrimped and
saved and invested wisely. But still, you have to remember
that the garment industry in those years was growing
by leaps and bounds. The economy was desperate for the
skills that they possessed."
Source:
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York, NY: Little, Brown, and Co., 2008.
(Note: italics in original.)
