“In the end, Tipping Points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Of the three, the third trait—the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment—is the most important, because it… — 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
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“are many studies that say they can’t find a statistically significant effect of some policy change,” Hoxby says. “That doesn’t mean that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“In the end, Tipping Points are the reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform 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 Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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 Image