We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that. — 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
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — 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
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency. — 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
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the… — 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
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
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted… — 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
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
If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. — 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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