“The scholars who research happiness suggest that more money stops making people happier at a family income of around seventy-five thousand dollars… — 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… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“an airplane hangar. The man from Hollywood had too much money. That was his” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“But the better answer is that Hotchkiss has simply fallen into the trap that wealthy people and wealthy institutions and wealthy countries—all… — 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
There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that’s worth more to most of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise -… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We have given teens more money, so they can construct their own social and material worlds more easily. We have given them… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“the face is an enormously rich source of information about emotion. In fact, he makes an even bolder claim—one central to understanding… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“If I offered you a choice between being an architect for $75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth every day for… — 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