If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience! — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“concerted cultivation. He gets taken to museums and gets enrolled in special programs and goes to summer camp, where he takes classes.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars a year.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
