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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

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“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

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

“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

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“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

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

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

“An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow”

— Malcolm Gladwell

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“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