If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money. — 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
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating… — 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
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of… — 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
I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. — 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
One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long… — 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
...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are… — 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
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in… — 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
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to… — 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