...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are… — 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
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
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the… — 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
It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability. — 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
Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment… — 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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