We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?" — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push -… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money -… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to… — 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
My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people… — 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
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate… — 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
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste… — 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
![“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number…” quote by Malcolm Gladwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/33b/malcolm-gladwell-348_air_people-at-cdc-centers-for-disease-contro_2553534.png)
