When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all, — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“But he was ecstatic, because the prospect of those endless years of hard labor did not seem like a burden to him.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders. — 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
