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
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — 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
“What are we seeing here? One very real possibility is that these are the educational consequences of the differences in parenting styles… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“My father will sit down and give you theories to explain why he does this or that," the son of the billionaire… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé “IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE.” 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided… — 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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