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
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 there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people… — 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
I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste… — 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
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money -… — 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
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?" — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in 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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