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 Image
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds… — 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
We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — 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
