If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right? — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani. — 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
We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is… — 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
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we… — 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
The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people… — 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
Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are… — 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
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to… — 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
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
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — 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
Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If… — 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
The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon,… — 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
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