There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — 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