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
I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize… — 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
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
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal… — 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