World Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

— Malcolm Gladwell

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

— Malcolm Gladwell

You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long…

— Malcolm Gladwell

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push -…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince…

— Malcolm Gladwell

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think…

— 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

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

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst…

— Malcolm Gladwell

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to…

— 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

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money -…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very…

— Malcolm Gladwell