People Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People don't rise from nothing,

— Malcolm Gladwell

Working really hard is what successful people do...

— Malcolm Gladwell

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

— Malcolm Gladwell

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

— Malcolm Gladwell

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

— Malcolm Gladwell

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

— Malcolm Gladwell

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems…

— Malcolm Gladwell

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their…

— Malcolm Gladwell

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.

— Malcolm Gladwell

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long…

— Malcolm Gladwell

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment…

— Malcolm Gladwell