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
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
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
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“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
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
[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
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
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
“An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
“Most psychologists believe that nature—genetics—accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. His point is simply… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share
![“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number…” quote by Malcolm Gladwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33b/malcolm-gladwell-348_air_people-at-cdc-centers-for-disease-contro_2553534.png)
