The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — 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
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
[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
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. — 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
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — 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
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
I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of… — 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
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
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
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The iPod is clearly a tipping point (and I'm not quite sure it is a wholly positive development), because it is a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why… — 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
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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