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
In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
… it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight” — 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
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard… — 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
If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer.… — 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
“...when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about — how well… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — 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… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we… — 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
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.” — 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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