For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number. — 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… — 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
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
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
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 used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very… — 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
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people… — 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
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
...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
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
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 assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want 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
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — 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
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is… — 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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