Success Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation

— Malcolm Gladwell

Emotion is contagious.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“That's like being a hockey player born on January I.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The successful are those who have been given opportunities,

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

— Malcolm Gladwell

the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success

— Malcolm Gladwell

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

— Malcolm Gladwell

… it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of…

— 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

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

“Working really hard is what successful people do, and the genius of the culture formed in the rice paddies is that hard…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“...when we understand how much culture and history and the world outside of the individual matter to professional success--then ... We have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted,…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about — how well…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that…

— 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

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we…

— 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

“there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. What is the question we always ask about the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Working really hard is what successful people do...

— Malcolm Gladwell

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

— Malcolm Gladwell